Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

¶ Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.

Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.

¶ Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

¶ Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

¶ Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

¶ It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

¶ Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

¶ My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.