Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Then I will teach the wicked your ways, and sinners will return to you.

To those who fear you because of the truth you gave a banner to rally around, (Selah)

For your sake I suffer insults, shame covers my face.

I am estranged from my brothers, an alien to my mother's children,

because zeal for your house is eating me up, and on me are falling the insults of those insulting you.

God, you have taught me since I was young, and I still proclaim your wonderful works.

So now that I'm old, and my hair is gray, don't abandon me, God, till I have proclaimed your strength to the next generation, your power to all who will come,

How much longer, God, will the foe jeer at us? Will the enemy insult your name forever?

Remember how the enemy scoffs at ADONAI, how a brutish people insults your name.

Don't hand over the soul of your dove to wild beasts, don't forget forever the life of your poor.

Look to the covenant, for the land's dark places are full of the haunts of violence.

Don't let the oppressed retreat in confusion; let the poor and needy praise your name.

Arise, God, and defend your cause; remember how brutish men insult you all day.

Don't forget what your foes are saying, the ever-rising uproar of your adversaries.

Who will champion my cause against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against evildoers?

Sing to ADONAI, bless his name! Proclaim his victory day after day!

Declare his glory among the nations, his wonders among all peoples!

Say among the nations, "ADONAI is king!"The world is firmly established, immovable. He will judge the peoples fairly.

Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, cutting off all evildoers from the city of ADONAI.

Not to us, ADONAI, not to us, but to your name give glory, because of your grace and truth.

Why should the nations ask, "Where is their God?"

Fury seizes me when I think of the wicked, because they abandon your Torah.

The time has come for ADONAI to act, because they are breaking your Torah.

Rivers of tears flow down from my eyes, because they don't observe your Torah.

My zeal is destroying me, because my foes have forgotten your words.