Bible Verses About Zeal
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for zeal, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,172 votes, led by Romans 12:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Zeal
Romans 12:11337 votes
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Revelation 3:19310 votes
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Titus 2:14294 votes
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Romans 10:2275 votes
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
John 2:17265 votes
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Isaiah 59:17231 votes
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Psalms 119:139204 votes
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
Psalms 69:9184 votes
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Galatians 4:18172 votes
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
2 Kings 10:16165 votes
And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So they made him ride in his chariot.
Colossians 4:13150 votes
For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
2 Corinthians 7:11140 votes
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Acts 21:20114 votes
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
2 Corinthians 9:2110 votes
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
1 Corinthians 14:1291 votes
Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
Philippians 1:2778 votes
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Numbers 25:1171 votes
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
John 4:3462 votes
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
2 Corinthians 4:16-1847 votes
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Philippians 3:645 votes
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Galatians 6:942 votes
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians 1:1441 votes
And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Acts 22:338 votes
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
1 Corinthians 9:2734 votes
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Isaiah 9:733 votes
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
What does the Bible say about zeal?
Readers most often cite Romans 12:11 on the subject of zeal. Across 4,172 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Revelation 3:19, Titus 2:14, Romans 10:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.