Bible Verses About Religious Zeal: Without knowledge

So don't be overly righteous or overly wise; why should you disappoint yourself?

A Torah-teacher approached and said to him, "Rabbi, I will follow you wherever you go."

Yeshua said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds flying about have nests, but the Son of Man has no home of his own."

As they were traveling on the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

Yeshua answered him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds flying about have nests, but the Son of Man has no home of his own.”

They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is serving God!

On hearing it, they praised God; but they also said to him, “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of believers there are among the Judeans, and they are all zealots for the Torah.

for I can testify to their zeal for God. But it is not based on correct understanding;

for, since they are unaware of God’s way of making people righteous and instead seek to set up their own, they have not submitted themselves to God’s way of making people righteous.

For you have heard about my former way of life in [traditional] Judaism — how I did my best to persecute God’s Messianic Community and destroy it;

and how, since I was more of a zealot for the traditions handed down by my forefathers than most Jews my age, I advanced in [traditional] Judaism more rapidly than they did.

True, these teachers are zealous for you, but their motives are not good. They want to separate you from us so that you will become zealous for them.

True, some are proclaiming the Messiah out of jealousy and rivalry, but others are doing it in goodwill.

The latter act from love, aware that I am put where I am for defending the Good News;

while the former announce the Messiah out of selfish ambition, with impure motives, supposing they can stir up trouble for me in prison.

But so what? All that matters is that in every way, whether honestly or in pretense, the Messiah is being proclaimed; and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,