¹⁸ But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

¹⁴ 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.

¹² So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

²⁷ Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Gospel;

¹³ but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Gospel to you the first time.

²⁰ but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

¹⁷ He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

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

⁹ For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

¹¹ 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.

¹² Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:

¹³ and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.