Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace;

above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints--

and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,

for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely--as it behoveth me to speak.

And that ye may know--ye also--the things concerning me--what I do, all things make known to you shall Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful ministrant in the Lord,

And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,

so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places--all,

and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold--fearlessly to speak the word.

Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:

what then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed--and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

And if to live in the flesh is to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;

for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

and to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account,

and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of the faith,

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;