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Romans 10:2

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

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1BRETHREN, the kind wish of my heart indeed, and the prayer which I offer to God for Israel, is for their salvation.

3For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

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Cross References

John 16:2They will put you out of their synagogues: yea, the hour is coming, that every one who killeth you will think he offers God a sacred service.

Acts 21:28crying out, Men of Israel, help! This is the man, who, by his preaching, sets all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place: yea and more still, hath brought Greeks into the temple, and defiled this holy place:

Acts 22:22And they gave him audience to this sentence, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

Romans 9:31But Israel, pursuing after the law of righteousness, hath not come up to the law of righteousness.

Matthew Henry on Romans 10:2-12

Paul's Discourse of Righteousness; The Method of Salvation. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. 5 For Moses describeth… Read the whole commentary →

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