Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

So when we could no longer stand it, we agreed to be left in Athens alone

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker for the Good News of the Messiah, to make you solid and encourage you in your trust;

For you yourselves know how you must imitate us, that we were not idle when we were among you.

We did not accept anyone’s food without paying; on the contrary, we labored and toiled, day and night, working so as not to be a burden to any of you.

It was not that we hadn’t the right to be supported, but so that we could make ourselves an example to imitate.

And you brothers who are doing what is good, don’t slack off!

(indeed, it is for this that we toil and strive): we have our hope set on a living God who is the deliverer of all humanity, especially of those who trust.

I give thanks to God, whom, like my forbears, I worship with a clean conscience, as I regularly remember you in my prayers night and day.

For God gave us a Spirit who produces not timidity, but power, love and self-discipline.

It was for this Good News that I was appointed a proclaimer, emissary and teacher of the Goyim;

and this is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know him in whom I have put my trust, and I am persuaded that he can keep safe until that Day what he has entrusted to me.

Follow the pattern of the sound teachings you have heard from me, with trust and the love which is yours in the Messiah Yeshua.

and for which I am suffering to the point of being bound in chains — but the Word of God is not bound in chains!

Why do I persevere through it all? For the sake of those who have been chosen, so that they too may obtain the deliverance that comes through the Messiah Yeshua, with eternal glory.

But you, you have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose in life, trust, steadfastness, love and perseverance —

as well as the persecutions and sufferings that came my way in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

He gave himself up on our behalf in order to free us from all violation of Torah and purify for himself a people who would be his own, eager to do good.

Remind people to submit to the government and its officials, to obey them, to be ready to do any honorable kind of work,

For you shared the sufferings of those who had been put in prison. Also when your possessions were seized, you accepted it gladly; since you knew that what you possessed was better and would last forever.

Now if they were to keep recalling the one they left, they would have an opportunity to return;

but as it is, they aspire to a better fatherland, a heavenly one. This is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

By trusting, Moshe, after he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

He chose being mistreated along with God’s people rather than enjoying the passing pleasures of sin.

He had come to regard abuse suffered on behalf of the Messiah as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he kept his eyes fixed on the reward.

By trusting, he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered as one who sees the unseen.