Galatians 1:14

American Standard Version (1901)

and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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  • Jer 9:14 : 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;
  • Jer 15:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.
  • Matt 15:2-3 : 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 3 And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:
  • Acts 26:5 : 5 having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
  • Phil 3:4-6 : 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
  • Mark 7:3-9 : 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; 4 and [when they come] from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels .) 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands? 6 And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me. 7 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men. 8 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. 9 And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: 11 but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God] ; 12 ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother; 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh [unto me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught [them] ;
  • Isa 57:12 : 12 I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.

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    12For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through revelation of Jesus Christ.

    13For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

  • Acts 26:3-5
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    3especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

    4My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

    5having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

  • Acts 22:2-6
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    2And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,

    3I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:

    4and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

    5As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

    6And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and drew nigh unto Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.

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    4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

    5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

    6as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

    7Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

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    15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, [even] from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

    16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:

    17neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were apostles before me: but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned unto Damascus.

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    9I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

    10And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

    11And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

    12Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

    13at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that journeyed with me.

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    13though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;

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    14But this I confess unto thee, that after the Way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

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    19And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

    20and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of them that slew him.

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    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

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    21Then I came unto the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

    22And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:

    23but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;

    24and they glorified God in me.

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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

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    20And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

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    21For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

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    2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

  • Phil 1:12
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    12Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

  • Phil 1:14
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    14and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

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    17And it came to pass, that after three days he called together those that were the chief of the Jews: and when they were come together, he said unto them, I, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

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    21And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that in Jerusalem made havoc of them that called on this name? and he had come hither for this intent, that he might bring them bound before the chief priests.

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    10But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

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    14For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

  • Rom 9:3
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    3For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

  • Acts 22:11
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    11And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me I came into Damascus.

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    17And it came to pass, that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

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    19serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

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    2and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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    3Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts: for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

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    11Seeing that thou canst take knowledge that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem:

  • 1 Tim 1:16
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    16howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life.