Galatians 1:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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  • Jer 9:14 : 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
  • Jer 15:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.
  • Matt 15:2-3 : 2 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of our fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are today.
  • Acts 26:5 : 5 Who knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 I truly 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 might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 Regarding zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness in the law, blameless.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest anyone spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the basic principles of the world, and not after Christ.
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 Whom having not seen you love; in whom, though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
  • Mark 7:3-9 : 3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands often, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, unless they wash, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received to hold, like the washing of cups, pots, bronze vessels, and tables. 5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands? 6 He answered and said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 7 However, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, such as the washing of pots and cups; and many other similar things you do. 9 And he said to them, You completely reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death. 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is, a gift to God, by which you might have been benefited by me; he shall be free. 12 And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 13 Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 Therefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near to me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
  • Isa 57:12 : 12 I will declare your righteousness and your works; for they shall not profit you.

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    2And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they became even more silent. And he said,

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    4And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

    5As also the high priest bears me witness, and all the council of the elders, from whom I also received letters to the brothers, and went to Damascus to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem, to be punished.

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    6Regarding zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness in the law, blameless.

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    11And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

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