Top 25 Bible Verses About Zeal (NIV)

² For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.

¹¹ Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

¹⁹ Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.

¹⁷ He put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head; he put on the garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.

¹³⁹ My zeal wears me out, for my enemies ignore your words.

³⁴ "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."

²⁷ Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel

² For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action.

¹⁶ Jehu said, "Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD." Then he had him ride along in his chariot.

⁹ for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.

¹⁸ It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I am with you.

¹⁶ Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. ¹⁸ So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

¹¹ See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

⁹ Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

²⁷ No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

¹ Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved.

¹ I speak the truth in Christ--I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit-- ² I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ³ For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race,

¹³ And as for you, brothers, never tire of doing what is right.

¹⁴ I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

⁶ as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.

⁷ Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.

¹² So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church.

⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.