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.

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• Acts 21:20They, 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.
• Rom 9:31–32but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
• Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
• Prov 19:2It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
• Phil 1:9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• Phil 3:6concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
• 2 Cor 4:4in 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.
• Gal 1:14I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
• 2 Kgs 10:16He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
• Acts 26:9–10“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• Acts 22:3“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 today.
• Ps 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing 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.
• Acts 21:28crying 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!”
• 2 Cor 8:3For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
• Gal 4:15What 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 4:17–18They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
• Col 4:13For I testify about him, that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.
• Acts 22:22They 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!”
• Isa 27:1In 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 16:2They 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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