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- 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.
- Phil 3:4-6 : 4 though I myself might {G2532} 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.
- 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 {G3361} 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 57:12 : 12 I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.
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- Acts 26:3-53 verses81%
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 22:2-65 verses79%
2And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,
3I 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:
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.
- Phil 3:4-74 verses79%
4though I myself might {G2532} 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.
- Gal 1:15-173 verses75%
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.
- Acts 26:9-135 verses75%
9I verily {G3303} 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 {G2532} 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: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;
- Gal 1:21-244 verses71%
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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: