Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;

and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

opening and alleging, `That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ--Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'

and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,

therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God--unknown; whom, therefore--not knowing--ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

neither by the hands of men is He served--needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, --though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

`Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, `Your blood is upon your head--I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

and he came down to Ephesus, and did leave them there, and he himself having entered into the synagogue did reason with the Jews:

And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus,

this one was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in the Spirit, was speaking and teaching exactly the things about the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John;

this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to them , and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,

and he being minded to go through into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, did help them much who have believed through the grace,