Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.

And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that spoke.

They therefore that were dispersed went about preaching the word of God.

But when they had believed Philip preaching of the kingdom of God, in the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

And they indeed, having testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem: and preached the gospel to many countries of the Samaritans.

And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?

Then Philip, opening his mouth and beginning at this scripture, preached unto him Jesus.

But Philip was found in Azotus: and passing through, he preached the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

And immediately he preached Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the son of God.

And all that heard him were astonished and said: Is not this he who persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name and came hither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?

But Saul increased much more in strength and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, affirming that this is the Christ.

And when many days were passed, the Jews consulted together to kill him.

But their lying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him.

But the disciples, taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.

And when he was come into Jerusalem, he essayed to join himself to the disciples: and they all were afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and told them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him: and how in Damascus he had dealt confidently in the name of Jesus.

And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem and dealing confidently in the name of the Lord.

He spoke also to the Gentiles and disputed with the Greeks. But they sought to kill him.

And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that it is he who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the dead.

Now they who had been dispersed by the persecution that arose on occasion of Stephen went about as far as Phenice and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none, but to the Jews only.

But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they were entered into Antioch, spoke also to the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus.

For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first named Christians.

Then Paul rising up and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: Ye men of Israel and you that fear God, give ear.

The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence: