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Romans 10:2

New Century Version

I can say this about them: They really try to follow God, but they do not know the right way.

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“Come with me,” Jehu said. “You can see how strong my feelings are for the Lord.” So Jehu had Jehonadab ride in his chariot.

Don’t the wicked understand? They destroy my people as if they were eating bread. They do not ask the Lord for help.

Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.

At that time the Lord will punish Leviathan, the gliding snake. He will punish Leviathan, the coiled snake, with his great and hard and powerful sword. He will kill the monster in the sea.

People will put you out of their synagogues. Yes, the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are offering service to God.

When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul, “Brother, you can see that many thousands of our people have become believers. And they think it is very important to obey the law of Moses.

They shouted, “People of Israel, help us! This is the man who goes everywhere teaching against the law of Moses, against our people, and against this Temple. Now he has brought some Greeks into the Temple and has made this holy place unclean!”

The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they began shouting, “Get rid of him! He doesn’t deserve to live!”

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in the country of Cilicia, but I grew up in this city. I was a student of Gamaliel, who carefully taught me everything about the law of our ancestors. I was very serious about serving God, just as are all of you here today.

Brothers and sisters, the thing I want most is for all the Jews to be saved. That is my prayer to God.

Because they did not know the way that God makes people right with him, they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

The devil who rules this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe. They cannot see the light of the Good News—the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is exactly like God.

God once said, “Let the light shine out of the darkness!” This is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts by letting us know the glory of God that is in the face of Christ.

I can tell you that they gave as much as they were able and even more than they could afford. No one told them to do it.

I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion, doing better than most other Jews of my age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the teachings handed down by our ancestors.

You were very happy then, but where is that joy now? I am ready to testify that you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me if that were possible.

This is my prayer for you: that your love will grow more and more; that you will have knowledge and understanding with your love;

I was so enthusiastic I tried to hurt the church. No one could find fault with the way I obeyed the law of Moses.

I know he has worked hard for you and the people in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.




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