Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

I desired Titus: and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? Did we not in the same steps?

Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification.

For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.

But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.

Now we pray God that you may do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is good and that we may be as reprobates.

For we can do nothing against the truth: but for the truth.

For we rejoice that we are weak and you are strong. This also we pray for, your perfection.

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God and wasted it.

And I made progress in the Jew's religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace,

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood.

And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain.

O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth: before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you?

I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.

But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.

And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void.

And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

Be angry: and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.

And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise,