Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

They said, “Trust in the Lord Yeshua, and you will be saved — you and your household!”

Whereupon they told him and everyone in his household the message about the Lord.

According to his usual practice, Sha’ul went in; and on three Shabbats he gave them drashes from the Tanakh,

explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and that “this Yeshua whom I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah.”

While Sha’ul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit within him was disturbed at the sight of the city full of idols.

So he began holding discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the “God-fearers,” and in the market square every day with the people who happened to be there.

Sha’ul stood up in the Council meeting and said, “Men of Athens: I see how very religious you are in every way!

For as I was walking around, looking at your shrines, I even found an altar which had been inscribed, ‘To An Unknown God.’ So, the one whom you are already worshipping in ignorance — this is the one I proclaim to you.

“The God who made the universe and everything in it, and who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in man-made temples;

nor is he served by human hands, as if he lacked something; since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

“From one man he made every nation living on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish.

God did this so that people would look for him and perhaps reach out and find him although in fact, he is not far from each one of us,

‘for in him we live and move and exist.’ Indeed, as some of the poets among you have said, ‘We are actually his children.’

So, since we are children of God, we shouldn’t suppose that God’s essence resembles gold, silver or stone shaped by human technique and imagination.

“In the past, God overlooked such ignorance; but now he is commanding all people everywhere to turn to him from their sins.

For he has set a Day when he will judge the inhabited world, and do it justly, by means of a man whom he has designated. And he has given public proof of it by resurrecting this man from the dead.”

Sha’ul also began carrying on discussions every Shabbat in the synagogue, where he tried to convince both Jews and Greeks.

But after Sila and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Sha’ul felt pressed by the urgency of the message and testified in depth to the Jews that Yeshua is the Messiah.

However when they set themselves against him and began hurling insults, he shook out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! For my part, I am clean; from now on, I will go to the Goyim!”

They came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself went into the synagogue and held dialogue with the Jews.

spent some time there, and afterwards set out and passed systematically through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the talmidim.

Meanwhile, a Jewish man named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker with a thorough knowledge of the Tanakh.

This man had been informed about the Way of the Lord, and with great spiritual fervor he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Yeshua, but he knew only the immersion of Yochanan.

He began to speak out boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the Way of God in fuller detail.

When he made plans to cross over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote the talmidim there to welcome him. On arrival, he greatly helped those who through grace had come to trust;