Verse 14

And profited in the Iewes religion, aboue many of my companions in mine owne nation, beyng a very feruent maynteyner of the traditions of my fathers.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 9:14 : 14 But folowed the wickednesse of their owne heartes, & serued straunge gods as their forefathers taught them.
  • Jer 15:2 : 2 And yf they say vnto thee, whyther shall we go? then tell them, The Lorde geueth you this aunswere: Some vnto death, some to the sworde, some to hunger, some into captiuitie.
  • Matt 15:2-3 : 2 Why do thy disciples transgresse the traditions of the elders? for they washe not their handes when they eate bread. 3 But he aunswered and sayde vnto them: why do ye also transgresse the commaundement of God, by your tradition?
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus haue ye made the commaundement of God, of none effect, by your tradition.
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 I am verily a man which am a Iewe, borne in Tarsus in Cilicia, and yet brought vp in this citie at ye feete of Gamaliel, and infourmed accordyng to the perfect maner of the lawe of ye fathers, and was zelous towarde God, as ye all are this same day.
  • Acts 26:5 : 5 Which knewe me from the beginning, (yf they woulde testifie) that after the most straytest sect of our religion, I lyued a pharisee.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 I also veryly thought in my selfe that I ought to do many contrary thynges, cleane agaynst the name of Iesus of Nazareth:
  • Phil 3:4-6 : 4 Though I might also haue confidence in the fleshe. If any other man thinketh that he hath wherof he myght trust in the fleshe, more I: 5 Circumcised the eyght day, of the kinred of Israel, of the tribe of Beniamin, an Ebrue of the Ebrues, after the lawe a pharisee, 6 Concernyng feruentnesse, persecutyng the Churche: touchyng ye righteousnesse which is in ye lawe, I was blamelesse.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest any man spoyle you through philosophie & vayne deceipt, after the tradition of men, and after the rudimentes of the worlde, and not after Christe.
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 Whom ye haue not seene, and yet loue hym, in whom euen nowe though ye see hym not, yet do you beleue, & reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious:
  • Mark 7:3-9 : 3 For the pharisees and all the Iewes, except they wasshe their handes oft, eate not, obseruing the traditions of ye elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wasshe, they eate not. And many other things there be, which they haue taken vpon them to obserue as the wasshyng of cuppes and pottes, and brasen vessels, and of tables. 5 Then asked hym the pharisees and scribes: Why walke not thy disciples accordyng to the traditio of the elders, but eate bread with vnwasshen handes? 6 He aunswered, and sayde vnto them, that Esaias hath prophesied well of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoreth me with their lippes, but their heart is farre from me. 7 Howebeit, in vayne do they worship me, teachyng doctrines, the commaundementes of men. 8 For ye laye the commaundement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of me: as the wasshing of pottes & cuppes. And many other such like thinges ye do. 9 And he sayde vnto them: Well, ye cast asyde the commaundement of God, to mayntayne your owne tradition. 10 For Moyses sayde, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, who so curseth father or mother, let him dye the death. 11 But ye say, yf a man shall say to father or mother Corban (that is, by the gyft) that is offred of me, thou shalt be helped. 12 And so ye suffer hym no more to do ought for his father or his mother. 13 And make the worde of God of none effect, through your tradition, which ye haue ordeyned. And many such thinges do ye.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 Therfore thus hath the Lorde sayd: Forsomuche as this people when they be in trouble, do honour me with their mouth and with their lippes, but their heart is farre fro me, and the feare whiche they haue vnto me proceedeth of a commaundement that is taught of men:
  • Isa 57:12 : 12 Yea veryly I wyll declare thy goodnesse and thy workes, but they shall not profite thee.