Romans 10:2
Good News Translation
I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge.

New Revised Standard Version
I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.

Contemporary English Version
I know they love God, but they don't understand

New American Bible
I testify with regard to them that they have zeal for God, but it is not discerning.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

I bear them.

2 Corinthians 8:3 For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond their power, they were willing:

Galatians 4:15 Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would have given them to me.

Colossians 4:13 For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you and for them that are at Laodicea and them at Hierapolis.

that they.

2 Kings 10:16 And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So he made him ride in his chariot,

John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.

Acts 21:20,28 But they hearing it, glorified God and said to him: Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews that have believed: and they are all zealous for the law. . . .

Acts 22:3,22 And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are this day: . . .

Acts 26:9,10 And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. . . .

Galatians 1:14 And I made progress in the Jew's religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Galatians 4:17,18 They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them. . . .

Philippians 3:6 According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

but not.

Romans 10:3 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

Romans 9:31,32 But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice. . . .

Psalm 14:4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Proverbs 19:2 Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he that is hasty with his feet shall stumble.

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

2 Corinthians 4:4,6 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them. . . .

Philippians 1:9 And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding:

Context
The Word Brings Salvation
1Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation. 2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.…
Cross References
Acts 21:20
But they hearing it, glorified God and said to him: Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews that have believed: and they are all zealous for the law.

Romans 9:31
But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

Romans 10:1
Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation.

Romans 10:3
For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

Romans 10:1
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