Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well,

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding you ,

and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,

and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,

who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

because for His name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

and to some be kind, judging thoroughly,

and some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.

`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the scroll, nor to behold it,

and one of the elders saith to me, `Weep not; lo, overcome did the Lion, who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, to open the scroll, and to loose the seven seals of it;