Romans 10:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² I bear them witness that they have a [certain] zeal and enthusiasm for God, but it is not enlightened and according to [correct and vital] knowledge.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Common English Bible

² I can vouch for them: they are enthusiastic about God. However, it isn’t informed by knowledge.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² For I offer testimony to them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 10:2 Cross References

Acts 21:20

And they, when they heard it, glorified God; and they said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of them which have believed; and they are all zealous for the law:

Philippians 3:6

as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

Philippians 1:9

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

Romans 10:3

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

Galatians 1:14

and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.

2 Kings 10:16

And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

2 Corinthians 4:6

Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Acts 22:3

I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon the LORD.

2 Corinthians 8:3

For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

Acts 21:28

crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place: and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place.

Galatians 4:15

Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

Colossians 4:13

For I bear him witness, that he hath much labour for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.

Acts 22:22

And they gave him audience unto this word; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

John 16:2

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.

Romans 10:1

Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.