Galatians 1:14
and signalized myself in Judaism above many of those of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly a zealot for the traditions of my fathers.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
15But when it pleased God, who selected me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
Cross References
Matthew 15:6then he shall not with it honour his father and mother: so have ye vacated the command of God by your tradition.
Acts 22:3I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed accurately in the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day:
Acts 26:9I indeed then thought in myself, that I ought to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarean.
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 →