Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.

You have raised a banner for those who fear You, that they may flee the bow. Selah

For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.

Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?

Sing to the LORD, bless His name; proclaim His salvation day after day.

Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.

Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.

Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.

Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.

It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.

My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.