Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Wherefore since we could no longer forbare, wee thought it good to remaine at Athens alone,

And haue sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our labour felow in the Gospel of Christ, to stablish you, and to comfort you touching your faith,

For ye your selues know, how ye ought to follow vs: for we behaued not our selues inordinately among you,

Neither tooke we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you.

Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

And ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

For therefore we labour and are rebuked, because we trust in the liuing God, which is the Sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleeue.

I thanke God, whom I serue from mine elders with pure conscience, that without ceasing I haue remembrance of thee in my praiers night and day,

For God hath not giuen to vs the Spirite of feare, but of power, and of loue, and of a sound minde.

Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

For the which cause I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed: for I knowe whom I haue beleeued, and I am persuaded that he is able to keepe that which I haue committed to him against that day.

Keepe the true paterne of the wholesome wordes, which thou hast heard of me in faith and loue which is in Christ Iesus.

Wherein I suffer trouble as an euill doer, euen vnto bondes: but the worde of God is not bounde.

Therefore I suffer all things, for the elects sake, that they might also obtaine the saluation which is in Christ Iesus, with eternall glorie.

But thou hast fully knowen my doctrine, maner of liuing, purpose, faith, long suffering, loue, patience,

Persecutions, and afflictions which came vnto me at Antiochia, at Iconium, and at Lystri, which persecutions I suffered: but from them all the Lord deliuered me.

Who gaue him selfe for vs, that hee might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe, zealous of good woorkes.

Pvt them in remembrance that they bee subiect to the Principalities and powers, and that they bee obedient, and ready to euery good woorke,

For both ye sorowed with mee for my bonds, and suffered with ioy the spoyling of your goods, knowing in your selues howe that ye haue in heauen a better, and an enduring substance.

And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned.

But nowe they desire a better, that is an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.

By faith Moses when he was come to age, refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter,

And chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinnes for a season,

Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect vnto the recompence of the reward.

By faith he forsooke Egypt, and feared not the fiercenes of the king: for he endured, as he that sawe him which is inuisible.