Quotes about Zeal

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”

Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.

I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul found out about this, they tore their clothes and rushed into the crowd, shouting,

When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.

For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.

Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced all the more.

Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.

For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.