Bible Dictionary: Zeal: Sometimes Wrongly Directed

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2 Samuel 21:2
And 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 slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
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Acts 22:3,4
I am truly 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 you all are this day.
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Philippians 3:6
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
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Library

The Argument for the Immaculate Conception.
... was taken up and advocated with great zeal and energy ... fifth general assembly of the
order directed its teachers ... 231] Anselm, who is sometimes wrongly quoted on ...
/.../ 29 the argument for.htm

Instructions to Converts.
... generally arise from their having been wrongly dealt with ... Sometimes people will neglect
to pray because they are ... hearts were warm and their zeal ardent enough ...
/.../lectures on revivals of religion/lecture xix instructions to converts.htm

Psalm LV.
... good counsel thou hast given, perchance sometimes thou hast ... own, lifted up; not having
a zeal for God ... let them not suppose that we thus wrongly understand men ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lv.htm

Second Part
... but the name Jacob assigned (rightly or wrongly) to him ... connected with it, by the
orthodox zeal of Cyrus. ... Sometimes, however, his references seem to be to the ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/second part.htm

Translator's Introduction.
... bad according as the love is rightly or wrongly placed. ... when we study his teaching
(x.) on zeal and anger ... It is sometimes said that a translation should read as ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/translators introduction.htm

Christianity Misunderstood by Believers.
... fully understood and often interpreted wrongly, as we ... and exhortations and professions,
which sometimes seem like ... clergy, and of late years with especial zeal. ...
/.../the kingdom of god is within you/chapter iii christianity misunderstood by.htm

The Sovereignty of God in Salvation
... it because they evidenced an earnestness and zeal in inquiring ... man" from the text,
but has wrongly inserted it ... Sometimes the wind blows so softly it scarcely ...
/.../pink/the sovereignty of god/chapter four the sovereignty of.htm

How to Preach the Gospel.
... Thus the writer, in his zeal to recognise and honor God ... 5. There are two objections
sometimes brought against the kind ... We have been wrongly educated, all of us ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture xii how to preach.htm

Prolegomena.
... and many of them evidently placed wrongly in order of ... which you sustain in your
unwearied zeal for the ... affliction from gout, leaving him sometimes hardly able ...
//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings of leo the great/prolegomena.htm

Introduction to Oration ii.
... the heart, [2588] and our warfare is directed against that ... For these classes differ
sometimes more widely from each ... erred from piety, who have zeal, though not ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/introduction to oration ii.htm

Subtopics

Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: David

Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: Elijah

Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: Israelites

Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: Jehoiada

Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: Jehu

Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: Josiah

Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: Moses and Levites

Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: Phinehas

Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: Samuel

Religious Zeal without Knowledge

Religious Zeal: Andrew and Philip