Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Then shall I teache thy wayes vnto the wicked, and sinners shalbe conuerted vnto thee.

But now thou hast giuen a banner to them that feare thee, that it may be displayed because of thy trueth. Selah.

For thy sake haue I suffred reproofe: shame hath couered my face.

I am become a stranger vnto my brethren, euen an aliant vnto my mothers sonnes.

For the zeale of thine house hath eaten mee, and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen vpon me.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth euen vntill nowe: therefore will I tell of thy wonderous workes,

Yea, euen vnto mine olde age and graie head, O God: forsake me not, vntill I haue declared thine arme vnto this generation, and thy power to all them, that shall come.

O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?

Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lord, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.

Giue not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beast, and forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer.

Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.

Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name.

Arise, O God: mainteine thine owne cause: remember thy dayly reproche by the foolish man.

Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.

Who will rise vp with me against the wicked? or who will take my part against the workers of iniquitie?

Sing vnto the Lord, and prayse his Name: declare his saluation from day to day.

Declare his glory among all nations, and his wonders among all people.

Say among the nations, The Lord reigneth: surely the world shalbe stable, and not moue, and he shall iudge the people in righteousnesse.

Betimes will I destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the workers of iniquitie from the Citie of the Lord.

Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto vs, but vnto thy Name giue the glorie, for thy louing mercie and for thy truethes sake.

Wherefore shall the heathen say, Where is nowe their God?

Feare is come vpon mee for the wicked, that forsake thy Lawe.

It is time for thee Lord to worke: for they haue destroyed thy Lawe.

Mine eyes gush out with riuers of water, because they keepe not thy Lawe.

My zeale hath euen consumed mee, because mine enemies haue forgotten thy wordes.