Romans 10:2

Romans chapter 10 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.1Brethren, my heart’s desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.

v.2This passage

v.3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Galatians 4:17
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
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:
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.
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 that have believed; and they are all zealous for the law:
Isaiah 27:1
In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
Philippians 3:6
as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.