Philippians 3:6
in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.
Acts 8:3
but Saul made havoc of the church by entering one house after another, dragging off men and women, and consigning them to prison.
Acts 22:3-4
"I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day.
Acts 26:9-10
I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
Galatians 1:13-14
You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,
Matthew 5:20
For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.
Matthew 23:25
Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.
Mark 10:20-21
"Teacher," he said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth."
Luke 1:6
They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;
Acts 9:1-19
Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest
Acts 21:20
They glorified God when they heard it. Then they said to him, "Brother, you see how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, all of them ardent upholders of the Law.
Acts 26:5
They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion.
Romans 7:9
I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;
Romans 9:31-32
whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law.
Romans 10:2-5
I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge.
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.
Philippians 3:9
and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.
1 Timothy 1:13
though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;