Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.'

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal-- even God.'

it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead--

Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,

be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

`This is the stone that was set at nought by you--the builders, that became head of a corner;

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering--they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been--

And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,

and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;

for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

And with great power were the apostles giving the testimony to the rising again of the Lord Jesus, great grace also was on them all,

and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,

and coming near, a certain one told them, saying--`Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

every day also in the temple, and in every house, they were not ceasing teaching and proclaiming good news--Jesus the Christ.