Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face of the enemy.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful things.

But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.

¶ Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.

You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly.

I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

¶ Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

¶ It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

¶ Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

¶ My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.