Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Therefore iudge nothing before the time, vntill the Lord come, who will lighten things that are hid in darkenesse, and make the counsels of the hearts manifest: and then shall euery man haue praise of God.

Nowe these things, brethren, I haue figuratiuely applied vnto mine owne selfe and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learne by vs, that no man presume aboue that which is written, that one swell not against another for any mans cause.

For who separateth thee? and what hast thou, that thou hast not receiued? if thou hast receiued it, why reioycest thou, as though thou haddest not receiued it?

Nowe ye are full: nowe ye are made rich: ye reigne as kings without vs, and would to God ye did reigne, that we also might reigne with you.

For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the last Apostles, as men appointed to death: for we are made a gasing stocke vnto the worlde, and to the Angels, and to men.

We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised.

Vnto this houre we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place,

And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it.

We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued children I admonish you.

For though ye haue tenne thousand instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: for in Christ Iesus I haue begotten you through the Gospel.

Wherefore, I pray you, be ye folowers of me.

For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus, which is my beloued sonne, and faithfull in the Lord, which shall put you in remembrance of my wayes in Christ as I teache euery where in euery Church.

Some are puffed vp as though I woulde not come vnto you.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will knowe, not the wordes of them which are puffed vp, but the power.

For the kingdome of God is not in worde, but in power.

What will ye? shall I come vnto you with a rod, or in loue, and in ye spirite of meekenes?

Therefore let vs keepe the feast, not with olde leauen, neither in the leauen of maliciousnes and wickednesse: but with the vnleauened bread of synceritie and trueth.

And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they which haue wiues, be as though they had none:

And they that weepe, as though they wept not: and they that reioyce, as though they reioyced not: and they that bye, as though they possessed not:

And they that vse this worlde, as though they vsed it not: for the fashion of this worlde goeth away.

And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.

But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is difference also betweene a virgine and a wife: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth for the things of the worlde, howe shee may please her husband.

If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.