Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

But they said: believe in the Lord Jesus: and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

And they preached the word of the Lord to him and to all that were in his house.

And Paul, according to his custom, went in unto them. And for three sabbath days he reasoned with them out of the scriptures:

Declaring and insinuating that the Christ was to suffer and to rise again from the dead; and that this is Jesus Christ, whom I preach to you.

Now whilst Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, seeing the city wholly given to idolatry.

He disputed, therefore, in the synagogue with the Jews and with them that served God: and in the market place, every day, with them that were there.

But Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.

For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship without knowing it, that I preach to you:

God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things:

And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us.

For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.

Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man.

And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.

Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead.

And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, bringing in the name of the Lord Jesus. And he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was earnest in preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

And he came to Ephesus and left them there. But he himself, entering into the synagogue, disputed with the Jews.

And after he had spent some time there, he departed and went through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, confirming all the disciples.

Now a certain Jew, named Apollo, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, one mighty in the scriptures.

This man was instructed in the way of the Lord: and being fervent in spirit, spoke and taught diligently the things that are of Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.

This man therefore began to speak boldly in the synagogue. Whom when Priscilla and Aquila had heard, they took him to them and expounded to him the way of the Lord more diligently.

And whereas he was desirous to go to Achaia, the brethren exhorting wrote to the disciples to receive him. Who, when he was come, helped them much who had believed.