Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

I entreated Titus, and did send with him the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? --did we not in the same steps?

Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, are for your up-building,

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

and I hope that ye shall know that we--we are not disapproved of;

and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;

for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;

for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for--your perfection!

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,

and when God was well pleased--having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace--

to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

they are zealous for you-- yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,