Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
New American Standard Bible
For I testify about them that they have
King James Version
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Holman Bible
I can testify about them that they have zeal for God,
International Standard Version
For I can testify on their behalf that they have a zeal for God, but it is not in keeping with full knowledge.
American Standard Version
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Amplified
For I testify about them that they have a certain enthusiasm for God, but not in accordance with [correct and vital] knowledge [about Him and His purposes].
An Understandable Version
For I can testify that they have an enthusiasm for God, but it is without [true] knowledge.
Anderson New Testament
For I testify for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Bible in Basic English
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
Common New Testament
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not according to knowledge.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for I bear them witness, that they have a zeal for God, but not guided by true knowledge.
Darby Translation
For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Godbey New Testament
For I testify to them, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to perfect knowledge;
Goodspeed New Testament
I can testify to their sincere devotion to God, but it is not an intelligent devotion.
John Wesley New Testament
For I bear them record, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Julia Smith Translation
For I testify for them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
King James 2000
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Modern King James verseion
For I bear record to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For I bear them record, that they have a fervent mind to Godward, but not according to knowledge.
Moffatt New Testament
I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge.
Montgomery New Testament
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, only it is a zeal without knowledge.
NET Bible
For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.
New Heart English Bible
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Noyes New Testament
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Sawyer New Testament
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge;
The Emphasized Bible
For I bear them witness that they have, a zeal for God, - but not according to correct knowledge;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For I am a witness for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I can testify that they are zealous for the honor of God; but they are not guided by true insight,
Webster
For I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Weymouth New Testament
For I bear witness that they possess an enthusiasm for God, but it is an unenlightened enthusiasm.
Williams New Testament
For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so.
World English Bible
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Worrell New Testament
For I testify for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge;
Worsley New Testament
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Youngs Literal Translation
for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,
Themes
Bigotry » Instances of » In zeal
Religion » Characteristics of » Legalism
Religious zeal » Without knowledge
Interlinear
Martureo
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 10:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Righteousness Of God Through Faith In Christ
1 Brothers, truly my heart's desire and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation. 2 For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
Cross References
Acts 21:20
And when the men heard, they glorified God, having said to him, Thou see, brother, how many thousands there are of the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealots of the law.
Proverbs 19:2
Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good. And he who hastens with his feet sins.
Romans 9:31-32
But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness.
Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment
2 Kings 10:16
And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
Psalm 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?
Acts 21:28
crying out, Men, Israelites, help. This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. And besides he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place.
Acts 22:3
I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today.
Acts 22:22
And they heard him until this word. And they lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a man from the earth, for he is not fit to live.
Acts 26:9-10
Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,
Romans 10:3
For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.
2 Corinthians 4:6
Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 8:3
so that according to their ability, I testify, and beyond their ability, willingly,
Galatians 1:14
And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions.
Galatians 4:15
Where then is your satisfaction? For I testify to you, that if possible, having plucked your eyes out, ye would have given them to me.
Galatians 4:17-18
They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.
Philippians 3:6
regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.
Colossians 4:13
For I testify about him, that he has much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
John 16:2
They will make you excommunicated from the synagogues. But the hour comes that every man who kills you will presume to be offering service to God.