Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.

because for the work of Messiah he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Messiah.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Messiah Yeshua, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Messiah

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Messiah Yeshua.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Yeshua.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Yeshua the Messiah;

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Messiah on our behalf,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Messiah in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;