Romans 10:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 10:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 21:20
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
Romans 9:31-32
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. …
Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Romans 10:3
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.
Proverbs 19:2
Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

The scope of the apostle in this part of the chapter is to show the vast difference between the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith, and the great pre-eminence of the righteousness of faith above that of the law; that he might induce and persuade the Jews to believe in Christ, aggravate the folly and sin of those that refused, and justify God in the rejection of such refusers.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. For I bear them record--or, “witness,” as he well could from his own sad experience. that they have a zeal of--“for” God, but not according to knowledge--(Compare Ac 22:3; 26:9-11; Ga 1:13, 14). He alludes to this well-meaning of his people, notwithstanding their spiritual blindness, not certainly to excuse their rejection of Christ and rage against His saints, but as some ground of hope regard…