² for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

²⁰ and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, `Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,

⁹ and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

⁶ according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!

³¹ and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;

³² wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

³ because, according to `their' power, I testify, and above `their' power, they were willing of themselves,

¹⁴ and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,

¹⁵ what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

¹⁷ they are zealous for you -- `yet' not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

¹⁸ and `it is' good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

¹³ for I do testify to him, that he hath much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

⁶ because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁴ in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

³ for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

¹⁶ and saith, `Come with me, and look on my zeal for Jehovah;' and they cause him to ride in his chariot.

⁴ Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

² Also, without knowledge the soul `is' not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.

²⁸ crying out, `Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;'

³ `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.

²² And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'

⁹ `I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved `me' many things to do,

¹⁰ which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,

² out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

¹ In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that `is' in the sea.