I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.

我可以证明，他们向神有热心，但不是按着真知识；

我为他们作证，他们对上帝有热心，但不是按着真知识。

我为他们作证，他们对神有热心，但不是按着真知识。

我可以证明，他们对上帝有热心，但不是基于真知。

我可以为他们作证，他们对神有热心，但不是按着真见识；

我见证他们对神有热心，但不是按着真正的认识。

我可以證明，他們向神有熱心，但不是按着真知識；

我為他們作證，他們對上帝有熱心，但不是按着真知識。

我為他們作證，他們對神有熱心，但不是按着真知識。

我可以證明，他們對上帝有熱心，但不是基於真知。

我可以為他們作證，他們對神有熱心，但不是按著真見識；

我可以給他們作證，他們對上帝倒有熱心，只是不按着真認識罷了。

我見證他們對神有熱心，但不是按著真正的認識。

我為之證、彼為上帝熱衷、但不依真知焉、

蓋彼雖熱中事上帝、而弗識之、我得為證、

我為彼作證、彼熱中事天主、但不由知識也、

吾知若輩非不渴慕天主、特慕之不得其道耳。

For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.

I can tell you for certain that they really want to serve God. But how they are trying to do it is not based on knowledge.

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

I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.

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

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

I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

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

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

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

After hearing this, they praised God. And then they said,“ You know, dear brother, how many thousands of Jews have also believed, and they all follow the law of Moses very seriously.

I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding.

But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law instead of by trusting in him. They stumbled over the great rock in their path.

For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.

I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault.

“ I used to believe that I ought to do everything I could to oppose the very name of Jesus the Nazarene.Indeed, I did just that in Jerusalem. Authorized by the leading priests, I caused many believers there to be sent to prison. And I cast my vote against them when they were condemned to death.

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

For I can testify that they gave not only what they could afford, but far more. And they did it of their own free will.

Then Paul said,“ I am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, and I was brought up and educated here in Jerusalem under Gamaliel. As his student, I was carefully trained in our Jewish laws and customs. I became very zealous to honor God in everything I did, just like all of you today.

For God, who said,“ Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.

Those false teachers are so eager to win your favor, but their intentions are not good. They are trying to shut you off from me so that you will pay attention only to them.If someone is eager to do good things for you, that’s all right; but let them do it all the time, not just when I’m with you.

Then Jehu said,“ Now come with me, and see how devoted I am to the Lord.” So Jehonadab rode along with him.

I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors.

Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes.

yelling,“ Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who preaches against our people everywhere and tells everybody to disobey the Jewish laws. He speaks against the Temple— and even defiles this holy place by bringing in Gentiles.”

The crowd listened until Paul said that word. Then they all began to shout,“ Away with such a fellow! He isn’t fit to live!”

Where is that joyful and grateful spirit you felt then? I am sure you would have taken out your own eyes and given them to me if it had been possible.

I can assure you that he prays hard for you and also for the believers in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.

In that day the Lord will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.