Romans 10:2 Cross References - Goodspeed

² I can testify to their sincere devotion to God, but it is not an intelligent devotion.

² They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

²⁰ They praised God when they heard it, and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous upholders of the Law.

²⁸ shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place."

³ "I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

²² They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

⁹ I once thought it my duty vigorously to oppose the cause of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ That was what I did at Jerusalem when on the authority of the high priests I put many of God's people in prison. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them,

³¹ while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it. ³² And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

³ For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

⁴ In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

⁶ For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, that is on the face of Christ.

³ For they have given to the utmost of their ability, as I can bear them witness, and beyond it,

¹⁴ and how I surpassed many of my own age among my people in my devotion to Judaism, I was so fanatically devoted to what my forefathers had handed down.

¹⁵ What has become of that satisfaction of yours? For I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given them to me!

¹⁷ These men are making much of you, but not with honorable intentions. They want to shut you out, so that you will have to make much of them. ¹⁸ But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly—not just when I can be with you,

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight,

⁶ as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

¹³ I can testify how anxious he is about you and the brothers in Laodicea and Hierapolis.