Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being willing to behave ourselves well in all things.

My brethren, if any of you err from the truth and one convert him:

He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.

For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For which cause, I will begin to put you always in remembrance of these things: though indeed you know them and are confirmed in the present truth.

But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.

And I will endeavour that you frequently have after my decease whereby you may keep a memory of these things.

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment:

And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.

I have no greater grace than this, to hear that my children walk in truth.

Dearly beloved, thou dost faithfully whatever thou dost for the brethren: and that for strangers,

Who have given testimony to thy charity in the sight of the church. Whom thou shalt do well to bring forward on their way in a manner worthy of God:

Because, for his name they went out, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

And some indeed reprove, being judged:

But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal.

Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open the book, nor to see it.

And one of the ancients said to me: Weep not: behold the lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof.