Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

We, for our part, proclaim him; we warn, confront and teach everyone in all wisdom; so that we may present everyone as having reached the goal, united with the Messiah.

It is for this that I toil, striving with all the energy that he stirs up in me so mightily.

For I want you to know how hard I work for you, for those in Laodicea, and for the rest of those who have not met me personally.

Behave wisely toward outsiders, making full use of every opportunity —

Our dear brother Tychicus, who is a faithful worker and fellow-slave in the Lord, will give you all the news about me.

I have sent him to you for this very reason — so that you might know how we are, and so that he might encourage you.

I have sent him with Onesimus, the dear and faithful brother, who is one of you; they will tell you everything that has happened here.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends greetings, as does Mark, Bar-Nabba’s cousin, concerning whom you have received instructions — if he comes to you, welcome him.

Yeshua, the one called Justus, also sends greetings. These three are among the Circumcised; and among my fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, only they have turned out to be a comfort to me.

We always thank God for all of you, regularly mentioning you in our prayers,

calling to mind before God our Father what our Lord Yeshua the Messiah has brought about in you — how your trust produces action, your love hard work, and your hope perseverance.

We know, brothers, that God has loved and chosen you;

that the Good News we brought did not become for you a matter only of words, but also one of power, the Ruach HaKodesh and total conviction — just as you know how we lived for your sakes when we were with you.

You, indeed, became imitators of us and of the Lord; so that even though you were going through severe troubles, you received the Word with joy from the Ruach HaKodesh.

Thus you became a pattern for all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia;

for the Lord’s message sounded forth from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but everywhere your trust toward God became known. The result is that we don’t need to say anything;

On the contrary, although we had already suffered and been outraged in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage, united with our God, to tell you the Good News even under great pressure.

For the appeal we make does not flow from error or from impure motives, neither do we try to trick people.

Instead, since God has tested us and found us fit to be entrusted with Good News, this is how we speak: not to win favor with people but with God, who tests our hearts.

For, as you know, never did we employ flattering talk, nor did we put on a false front to mask greed — God is witness.

Nor did we seek human praise — either from you or from others.

We were so devoted to you that we were glad to share with you not only God’s Good News but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.

For you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship, how we worked night and day not to put a burden on any of you while we were proclaiming God’s Good News to you.

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless our behavior was in the sight of you believers;

for you know that we treated each one of you the way a father treats his children —