Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,

and did send Timotheus--our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ--to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

for yourselves have known how it behoveth you to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men--especially of those believing.

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

to which I was placed a preacher and an apostle, and a teacher of nations,

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard--to that day.

The pattern hold thou of sound words, which from me thou didst hear, in faith and love that is in Christ Jesus;

in which I suffer evil--unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that is in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.

And thou--thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,

the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,

having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One--he endured;