Zeal

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 69:9 OT

  For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

• John 2:17 NT

  His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

• 2 Corinthians 7:10 NT

  For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

• 2 Corinthians 7:11 NT

  For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

• Psalms 119:139 OT

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

• 2 Corinthians 9:2 NT

  for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

• Romans 12:11 NT

  not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

• Galatians 4:18 NT

  But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

• Titus 2:14 NT

  who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

• Acts 26:29 NT

  Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

• Romans 10:1 NT

  Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

• Jude 1:1 NT

  Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

• Romans 15:19 NT

  in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

• Romans 15:23 NT

  but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

• Numbers 25:11 OT

  “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

• Numbers 25:13 OT

  It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”

• Colossians 4:13 NT

  For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

• 2 Kings 23:4-14 OT

  The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky,…

• 2 Samuel 21:2 OT

  The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the…

• Acts 22:3 NT

  “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

• Acts 22:4 NT

  I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

• Philippians 3:6 NT

  concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

• Romans 10:2 NT

  For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

• Galatians 1:14 NT

  I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.