Galatians 1:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For 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:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἠκούσατε γὰρ τὴν ἐμὴν ἀναστροφήν ποτε ἐν τῷ Ἰουδαϊσμῷ, ὅτι καθʼ ὑπερβολὴν ἐδίωκον τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἐπόρθουν αὐτήν:

Transliteration

For you ēkousate my emēn anastrophēn pote in tō Ioudaismō, that kath' hyperbolēn ediōkon tēn ekklēsian tou Theou, and eporthoun it:

Grammar Details

• *Ēkousate*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person plural - you heard
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *tēn emēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - my/mine
• *anastrophēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - direct object
• *pote*: temporal adverb - once/formerly
• *en tō Ioudaismō*: dative, masculine, singular with preposition - in Judaism
• *hoti*: conjunction - that/because
• *kath' hyperbolēn*: accusative, feminine, singular with preposition - beyond measure
• *ediōkon*: imperfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I was persecuting
• *tēn ekklēsian*: accusative, feminine, singular - direct object
• *tou Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive
• *eporthoun*: imperfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I was destroying

Word Meanings

• *ēkousate*: heard/listened to/learned of
• *anastrophēn*: conduct/way of life/behavior
• *pote*: once/formerly/at one time
• *Ioudaismō*: Judaism/Jewish religion/Jewish way of life
• *kath' hyperbolēn*: excessively/beyond measure/extremely
• *ediōkon*: was persecuting/pursuing/harassing
• *ekklēsian*: church/assembly/congregation
• *eporthoun*: was destroying/devastating/ravaging

Referenced Verses

• Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.
• Acts 9:21 : 21 And 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.
• Acts 26:4-5 : 4 My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; 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 : 9 I verily {G3303} thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 And 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. 11 And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even {G2532} unto foreign cities.
• 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
• Phil 3:6 : 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
• 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;
• Acts 22:3-5 : 3 I am {G3303} a {G435} 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: 4 and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. 5 As 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.
• Acts 8:1 : 1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
• Acts 9:26 : 26 And when he was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
• Acts 9:1-2 : 1 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2 and 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.
• Acts 9:13-14 : 13 But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how much evil he did to thy saints at Jerusalem: 14 and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call upon thy name.