Philippians 3:6
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.
Acts 8:3
But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.
Acts 22:3-4
"I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day.
Acts 26:9-10
"I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.
Galatians 1:13-14
For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;
Matthew 5:20
"For I assure you that unless your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not find entrance into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 23:25
"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but within they are filled with extortion and excess.
Mark 10:20-21
"Teacher," he answered, "I have observed all these from my youth."
Luke 1:6
who was a descendant of Aaron. They were both righteous in the sight of the Lord, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the law, blameless.
Acts 9:1-19
Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 21:20
And they, when they heard it, glorified God, and said to him. "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews, of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law.
Acts 26:5
"They know me of old, if they are willing to testify, how that according to the strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.
Romans 7:9
Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
Romans 9:31-32
But that the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law?
Romans 10:2-5
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, only it is a zeal without knowledge.
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith.
1 Timothy 1:13
although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.