Romans 10:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 21:20 : 20 They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
  • Phil 3:6 : 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • Rom 9:31-32 : 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. 32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Cor 8:3 : 3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
  • Gal 1:14 : 14 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.
  • Gal 4:15 : 15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
  • Gal 4:17-18 : 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. 18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 "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 this day.
  • Acts 22:22 : 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
  • Acts 26:9-9 : 9 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
  • 2 Kgs 10:16 : 16 He said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh." So they made him ride in his chariot.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?
  • Prov 19:2 : 2 It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.
  • Col 4:13 : 13 For I testify about him, that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

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  • Rom 10:3
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    3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

  • Rom 10:1
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    1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

  • Gal 4:17-18
    2 verses
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    17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

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

  • 1 Tim 1:7
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    7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

  • Rom 10:18-19
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    18 But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

    19 But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."

  • Phil 3:6
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    6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • Rom 3:17-18
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    17 The way of peace, they haven't known."

    18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

  • Phil 1:16-17
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    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

    17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

  • Titus 1:16
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    16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  • Acts 22:19
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    19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
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    11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10 But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

  • Gal 1:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

    14 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.

  • Rom 1:17-19
    3 verses
    69%

    17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

    18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

    19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

  • Rom 2:15
    69%

    15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

  • John 5:42
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    42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

  • Rom 9:30-32
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    30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

    31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

    32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

  • Rom 2:8
    69%

    8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

  • Phil 3:9
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    9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

  • Acts 3:17
    69%

    17 "Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

  • Rom 1:21-22
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    21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

    22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

  • Jude 1:10
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    10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

  • 2 Cor 9:2
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    2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

  • Rom 3:9
    68%

    9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • Gal 6:13
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    13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Rom 2:17-18
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    68%

    17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

    18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

  • Rom 11:11
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    11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

  • Eph 4:18
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    18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

  • Phil 1:8
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    8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Thess 1:8
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    8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

  • 1 Thess 2:16
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    16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

  • Rom 1:13
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    13 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

  • Rom 9:1-3
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    68%

    1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

    2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

    3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

  • Rom 9:6
    68%

    6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

  • 1 Cor 9:21
    68%

    21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.