Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 10:2-3

"For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For being ignorant of God`s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God." — Romans 10:2-3 (ASV)

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

There are many, also in these days, who are exactly in this condition. They are very zealous; they are full of piety of a certain kind, but it is with the view of setting up a righteousness of their own. Oh! that God would save them from this false way! For there is no acceptable righteousness but the righteousness which is of God in Christ Jesus; and the more intensely they labor for the false righteousness, the more bitter will be their disappointment in the end. Man can only be truly righteous in God's way; he will never be so in his own.