Galatians 1:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,

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  • Jer 9:14 : 14 And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,
  • Jer 15:2 : 2 And it hath come to pass, when they say to thee, Whither do we go out? that thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah: Those who `are' for death -- to death, And those who are for the sword, to the sword, And those who are for famine, to famine, And those who are for captivity, to captivity.
  • Matt 15:2-3 : 2 `Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.' 3 And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.
  • Acts 26:5 : 5 knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 `I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved `me' many things to do,
  • Phil 3:4-6 : 4 though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more; 5 circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee! 6 according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!
  • Col 2:8 : 8 See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,
  • Mark 7:3-9 : 3 for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, if they do not wash the hands to the wrist, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders, 4 and, `coming' from the market-place, if they do not baptize themselves, they do not eat; and many other things there are that they received to hold, baptisms of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches. 5 Then question him do the Pharisees and the scribes, `Wherefore do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but with unwashed hands do eat the bread?' 6 and he answering said to them -- `Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honor Me, and their heart is far from Me; 7 and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings, commands of men; 8 for, having put away the command of God, ye hold the tradition of men, baptisms of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.' 9 And he said to them, `Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep; 10 for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death; 11 and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), `is' whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine, 12 and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother, 13 setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!
  • Isa 57:12 : 12 I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

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    12for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught `it', but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,

    13for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

  • Acts 26:3-5
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    3especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.

    4`The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,

    5knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;

  • Acts 22:2-6
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    2and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --

    3`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.

    4`And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,

    5as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,

    6and it came to pass, in my going on and coming nigh to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of the heaven there shone a great light round about me,

  • Phil 3:4-7
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    4though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

    5circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!

    6according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!

    7But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

  • Gal 1:15-17
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    15and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called `me' through His grace --

    16to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

    17nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,

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    9`I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved `me' many things to do,

    10which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,

    11and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining `them' to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting `them' even unto strange cities.

    12`In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests --

    13at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light -- and those going on with me;

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    13who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did `it' in unbelief,

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    14`And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

  • Acts 22:19-20
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    19and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;

    20and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death;

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    24and they were glorifying God in me.

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    9for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

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    20and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;

  • Acts 26:21
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    21because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill `me'.

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    22Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!

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    2for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

  • Phil 1:12
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    12And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,

  • Phil 1:14
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    14and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold -- fearlessly to speak the word.

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    17And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;

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    21And all those hearing were amazed, and said, `Is not this he who laid waist in Jerusalem those calling on this name, and hither to this intent had come, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?'

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    10And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,

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    14for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

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    3for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

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    19serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against `me';

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    2did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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    3this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken `him', he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.

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    11thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

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    16but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during: