Parallel Verses

An Understandable Version

I advanced in the Jewish religion beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen. I have been extremely more zealous in advocating the traditions [taught] by my forefathers.

New American Standard Bible

and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions.

King James Version

And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

Holman Bible

I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

International Standard Version

I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries, because I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

A Conservative Version

And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions.

American Standard Version

and I advanced in the Jews religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Amplified

And [you have heard how] I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my countrymen in [my advanced study of the laws of] Judaism, as I was extremely loyal to the traditions of my ancestors.

Anderson New Testament

and I surpassed in Judaism many of my own age and nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the tradition of my fathers.

Bible in Basic English

And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

Common New Testament

and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

Daniel Mace New Testament

and that I made a greater proficiency in Judaism than many my contemporaries of my own nation, being an extraordinary zealot for the traditions of my forefathers.

Darby Translation

and advanced in Judaism beyond many my contemporaries in my nation, being exceedingly zealous of the doctrines of my fathers.

Godbey New Testament

and I was prominent in Judaism above many comrades in my race, being exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

Goodspeed New Testament

and how I surpassed many of my own age among my people in my devotion to Judaism, I was so fanatically devoted to what my forefathers had handed down.

John Wesley New Testament

And I profited in the Jewish religion above many of my years among my countrymen, being more abundantly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

Julia Smith Translation

And I advanced in Judaism above many like in my race, being more abundantly zealous of paternal traditions.

King James 2000

And advanced in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, [because] I was a far more zealous adherent of the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

Modern King James verseion

And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and prevailed in the Jews' law, above many of my companions, which were of mine own nation, and was a much more fervent maintainer of the traditions of the elders.

Moffatt New Testament

and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

Montgomery New Testament

and how in my zeal for Judaism I outstripped many of my own age and nation, in my special zeal for the traditions of my forefathers.

NET Bible

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

New Heart English Bible

I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Noyes New Testament

and made progress in Judaism beyond many of the same age with me in my nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Sawyer New Testament

and was a proficient in Judaism beyond many of my age among my people, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

The Emphasized Bible

And was making advancement, in Judaism, above many contemporaries in my nation, being, surpassingly zealous, of my paternal instructions.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And how, in my devotion to Judaism, I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my own people in my intense earnestness in upholding the traditions of my ancestors.

Webster

And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

Weymouth New Testament

and how in devotion to Judaism I outstripped many men of my own age among my people, being far more zealous than they on behalf of the traditions of my forefathers.

Williams New Testament

and how I outstripped many of my own age among my people in my devotion to the Jewish religion, because I surpassed all others in my zeal for the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

World English Bible

I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Worrell New Testament

and was making progress in Judaism above many companions of the same age in my own nation, being more exceedingly a zealot for my ancestral instructions.

Worsley New Testament

and I made a proficiency in Judaism above many of the same age with me in my own nation, being excessively zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

προκόπτω 
Prokopto 
Usage: 5

in
ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

Ἰουδαΐσμός 
Ioudaismos 
Usage: 2

ὑπέρ 
Huper 
Usage: 138

πολύς πολλός 
Polus 
Usage: 292

my equals
συνηλικιώτης 
sunelikiotes 
Usage: 1

μοῦ 
Mou 
my, me, mine, I, mine own
Usage: 313

γένος 
Genos 
Usage: 17

ὑπάρχω 
Huparcho 
be, have, live, after, not tr
Usage: 41

περισσοτέρως 
Perissoteros 
Usage: 13

ζηλωτής 
Zelotes 
Usage: 5

of the traditions
πατρικός 
Patrikos 
of fathers
Usage: 1

of my
μοῦ 
Mou 
my, me, mine, I, mine own
Usage: 313

Context Readings

Paul's Defense Of His Apostleship

13 For you have heard about the way I lived in the past, when I was in the Jewish religion, [that is], how I mercilessly persecuted the church of God, making havoc of it. 14 I advanced in the Jewish religion beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen. I have been extremely more zealous in advocating the traditions [taught] by my forefathers. 15 But then it was the good pleasure of God, who set me apart [for this purpose] before I was born, to call me [to this ministry] through His unearned favor.

Cross References

Acts 22:3

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus, in Cilicia, but raised [here] in this city [i.e., Jerusalem]. [I was] instructed by Gamaliel [i.e., a renowned Jewish rabbi of the time] according to the strictest methods of observing the law of our forefathers. [I was very] eager to serve God, just as all of you are here today.

Colossians 2:8

Pay attention so that no one takes you [spiritually] captive through his philosophy and empty deception based on human tradition, according to the principles of the world and not according to Christ.

Matthew 15:2-3

"Why do your disciples violate the tradition of the [Jewish] elders? For they do not [ceremonially] wash their hands before eating [their meals]."

Matthew 15:6

this person does not honor his father [or mother]. You have made God's message useless by [thus enforcing] your traditions.

Mark 7:3-13

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews would not eat anything unless they first scrubbed their hands [i.e., up to the wrists] in accordance with the [long-established] tradition of the Jewish elders).

Acts 26:5

They know of my early background; if they were willing to, they could testify that I lived as a [faithful] Pharisee, [which is] the strictest sect of our religion.

Acts 26:9

I truly thought within myself [that it was right] to do many things which were opposed to the name of Jesus from Nazareth.

Philippians 3:4-6

However I, myself, have [reasons for such] confidence in the flesh. [But] if any other person has [reasons for placing] confidence in the flesh, I have more [reasons].

1 Peter 1:8

Although you have not seen Jesus, you [still] love Him and believe in Him, and this causes you to have an indescribable, glorious joy.

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