Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Whether then it is I or they, so we proclaim, and so you believed.

Now if Messiah is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Messiah been raised.

If Messiah has not been raised, then our proclaiming is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Messiah, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Messiah been raised.

If Messiah has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Messiah have perished.

If we have only hoped in Messiah in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

But now Messiah has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Messiah all will be made alive.

But each in his own order: Messiah the first fruits, then those who are Messiah’s, at his coming.

Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

Or else what will they do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they immersed for the dead?

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Messiah Yeshua our Lord, I die daily.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.