Romans 10:2

Paul testifies that Israel has real zeal for God, but it is not based on true knowledge. Sincere religious passion can still miss the truth.

Cross-references · 21

• Acts 21:20When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
• Rom 9:31–32but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
• Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• Prov 19:2Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.
• Phil 1:9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
• Phil 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
• 2 Cor 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
• Gal 1:14I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
• 2 Kgs 10:16saying, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD!” So he had him ride in his chariot.
• Acts 26:9–10So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• Acts 22:3“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.
• Ps 14:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
• 2 Cor 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Acts 21:28crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
• 2 Cor 8:3For I testify that they gave according to their ability and even beyond it. Of their own accord,
• Gal 4:15What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
• Gal 4:17–18Those 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.
• Col 4:13For I testify about him that he goes to great pains for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.
• Acts 22:22The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
• Isa 27:1In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

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