Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all.

Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father, so hath he served with me in the gospel.

For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.

Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was wanting towards my service.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more:

Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews. According to the law, a Pharisee:

According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.

Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.

And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death,

If by any means I may attain to the resurrection which is from the dead.

Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one thing I do: Forgetting the things that are behind and stretching forth myself to those that are before,

I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, this also God will reveal to you,

Nevertheless, whereunto we are come, that we be of the same mind, let us also continue in the same rule.

Be ye followers of me, brethren: and observe them who walk so as you have our model.

But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

And I entreat thee also, my sincere companion, help those women who have laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith.

I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound (every where and in all things I am instructed): both to be full and to be hungry: both to abound and to suffer need.

Not that I seek the gift: but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account.

As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus;

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church: