Religious Zeal without Knowledge
9 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
- Ecclesiastes 7:16 Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
- Matthew 8:19–20 And one of the scribes came to Him and said, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” …
- Luke 9:57–58 As they were walking along the road, someone said to Jesus, “I will follow You wherever You go.” …
- John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
- Acts 21:20 When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
- Romans 10:2–3 For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge. …
- Galatians 1:13–14 For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. …
- Galatians 4:17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
- Philippians 1:15–18 It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.