Bible Verses About Religious Zeal: Exemplified by Paul

And straightway hee preached Christ in the Synagogues, that he was that Sonne of God,

So that all that heard him, were amased, and sayde, Is not this hee, that made hauocke of them which called on this Name in Hierusalem, and came hither for that intent, that hee should bring them bound vnto the hie Priests?

But Saul encreased the more in strength, and confounded the Iewes which dwelt at Damascus, confirming, that this was that Christ.

And after that many dayes were fulfilled, the Iewes tooke counsell together, to kill him,

But their laying awayte was knowen of Saul: nowe they watched the gates day and night, that they might kill him.

Then the disciples tooke him by night, and put him through the wall, and let him downe by a rope in a basket.

And when Saul was come to Hierusalem, he assayed to ioyne himselfe with the disciples: but they were all afrayd of him, and beleeued not that he was a disciple.

But Barnabas tooke him, and brought him to the Apostles, and declared to them, howe hee had seene the Lord in the way, and that hee had spoken vnto him, and how he had spoken boldly at Damascus in the Name of Iesus.

And hee was conuersant with them at Hierusalem,

And spake boldly in the Name of the Lord Iesus, and spake and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

Then Paul stoode vp and beckened with the hand, and sayde, Men of Israel, and yee that feare God, hearken.

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt in the land of Egypt, and with an high arme brought them out thereof.

And about the time of fourtie yeeres, suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.

And he destroied seuen nations in the land of Chanaan, and deuided their lad to them by lot.

Then afterward he gaue vnto them Iudges about foure hundreth and fiftie yeeres, vnto the time of Samuel the Prophet.

So after that, they desired a King, and God gaue vnto them Saul, the sonne of Cis, a man of ye tribe of Beniamin, by the space of fourty yeres.

And after he had taken him away, he raised vp Dauid to be their King, of whom he witnessed, saying, I haue found Dauid the sonne of Iesse, a man after mine owne heart, which will doe all things that I will.

Of this mans seede hath God according to his promise raised vp to Israel, ye Sauiour Iesus:

When Iohn had first preached before his coming the baptisme of repentance to all the people of Israel.

And when Iohn had fulfilled his course, he saide, Whom ye thinke that I am, I am not he: but beholde, there commeth one after me, whose shooe of his feete I am not worthy to loose.

Yee men and brethren, children of the generation of Abraham, and whosoeuer among you feareth God, to you is the woorde of this saluation sent.

For the inhabitants of Hierusalem, and their rulers, because they knewe him not, nor yet the woordes of the Prophets, which are read euery Sabbath day, they haue fulfilled them in condemning him.

And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate to kill him.

And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they tooke him downe from the tree, and put him in a sepulchre.

But God raised him vp from the dead.