Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

That is to say, that I may be comforted together in you by that which is common to us both, your faith and mine.

And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor.

So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome.

For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:

That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.

For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation.

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,

If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.

But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, as it were putting you in mind, because of the grace which is given me from God,

That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God.

For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Ghost, so that from Jerusalem round about, as far as unto Illyricum, I have replenished the gospel of Christ.

And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man a foundation.

But as it is written: They to whom he was not spoken of shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

For which cause also, I was hindered very much from coming to you and have been kept away till now.

But now, having no more place in these countries and having a great desire these many years past to come unto you,

When I shall begin to take my journey into Spain, I hope that, as I pass, I shall see you and be brought on my way thither by you: if first, in part, I shall have enjoyed you.

But now I shall go to Jerusalem, to minister unto the saints.