Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

and we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the good news is through all the assemblies,

for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,

for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,

not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope--your faith increasing--in you to be enlarged, according to our line--into abundance,

in the places beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;

The sin did I do--myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply--having come from Macedonia--and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!

ministrants of Christ are they? --as beside myself I speak--I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;

thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;

journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

apart from the things without--the crowding upon me that is daily--the care of all the assemblies.

Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

if to boast it behoveth me , of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--who is blessed to the ages--hath known that I do not lie! --

In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,

and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses--for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

any one of those whom I have sent unto you--by him did I take advantage of you?