Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of? for I bear you record that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.

For I bear witness of him, that he has a great zeal for you and those that are in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.

That they

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

They shall put you out of the synagogues, and the hour will even come when whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous of the law;

I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

I verily had thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

And profited in Judaism above many of my equals in my own nation, being exceedingly more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

They are zealous after you, but not for good; they would exclude you from us, that ye might be zealous after them.

concerning zeal, a persecutor of the congregation ; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

But not

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.

and Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.

The workers of iniquity certainly know this; those who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD.

That the soul be without wisdom is not good, and he that hastens with his feet sins.

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall visit punishment upon leviathan the fleeing serpent, and upon leviathan that serpent of double vision; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

In whom the god of this age has blinded the understanding of those who do not believe, that the light of the gospel of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine in them.

And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception,

General references

Then Micah said, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

And he said, All these things I have kept from my youth up.