Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you--and was hindered till the present time--that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,

so, as much as in me is, I am ready also to you who are in Rome to proclaim good news,

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart--

for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ--for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that is to God for Israel, is--for salvation;

for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

For to you I speak--to the nations--inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,

in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,

for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;

and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named--that upon another's foundation I might not build--

but according as it hath been written, `To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you,

and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come unto you for many years,

when I may go on to Spain I will come unto you, for I hope in going through, to see you, and by you to be set forward thither, if of you first, in part, I shall be filled.

And, now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;