Galatians 1:14
And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace,
Cross References
Leviticus 13:16Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest.
Isaiah 57:12I will declare thy righteousness. And as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.
Jeremiah 15:2And it shall come to pass, when they say to thee, Where shall we go forth? Then thou shall tell them, Thus says LORD: 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
Matthew 15:6And he will, no, not honor his father or mother. And ye have annulled the command of God because of your tradition.
Acts 22:3I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today.
Acts 26:9Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,
Matthew Henry on Galatians 1:11-24
The Apostle's Integrity. ( a. d. 56.) 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: 14 And… Read the whole commentary →