Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

"Yerushalayim! Yerushalayim! You kill the prophets! You stone those who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

He said to them, "A lamp isn't brought in to be put under a bowl or under the bed, is it? Wouldn't you put it on a lampstand?

Indeed, nothing is hidden, except to be disclosed; and nothing is covered up, except to come out into the open.

But Yeshua would not permit it. Instead, he said to him, "Go home to your people, and tell them how much ADONAI in his mercy has done for you."

He went off and began proclaiming in the Ten Towns how much Yeshua had done for him, and everyone was amazed.

He was amazed at their lack of trust. Then he went through the surrounding towns and villages, teaching.

Kefa said to him, "Even if everyone else loses faith in you, I won't."

Yeshua replied, "Yes! I tell you that this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will disown me three times!"

But Kefa kept insisting, "Even if I must die with you, I will never disown you!" And they all said the same thing.

And they went out and proclaimed everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the message by the accompanying signs.

for he will be great in the sight of ADONAI. He is never to drink wine or other liquor, and he will be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh even from his mother's womb.

He will turn many of the people of Isra'el to ADONAI their God.

He will go out ahead of ADONAI in the spirit and power of Eliyahu to turn the hearts of fathers to their childrena and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for ADONAI a people prepared."

"No one who has lit a lamp covers it with a bowl or puts it under a bed; no, he puts it on a stand; so that those coming in may see the light.

For nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed, nothing is covered up that will not be known and come out into the open.

As they were traveling on the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

Yeshua answered him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds flying about have nests, but the Son of Man has no home of his own.”

When Yeshua had come closer and could see the city, he wept over it,

saying, “If you only knew today what is needed for shalom! But for now it is hidden from your sight.

But I prayed for you, Shim‘on, that your trust might not fail. And you, once you have turned back in repentance, strengthen your brothers!”

Shim‘on said to him, “Lord, I am prepared to go with you both to prison and to death!”

One of the two who had heard Yochanan and had followed Yeshua was Andrew the brother of Shim‘on Kefa.

The first thing he did was to find his brother Shim‘on and tell him, “We’ve found the Mashiach!” (The word means “one who has been anointed.”)

He took him to Yeshua. Looking at him, Yeshua said, “You are Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan; you will be known as Kefa.” (The name means “rock.”)

Philip found Natan’el and told him, “We’ve found the one that Moshe wrote about in the Torah, also the Prophets — it’s Yeshua Ben-Yosef from Natzeret!”