Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose--at any time, and not only when I am with you.
Cross References
Galatians 4:13You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
Galatians 4:17Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
Treasury of Scripture
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
it is.
Numbers 25:11-13
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…
Psalm 69:9
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Psalm 119:139
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
I am.
Galatians 4:20
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Philippians 1:27
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;
Philippians 2:12
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
