Leviticus 13:16

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Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

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.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,