Philippians 3:6
In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.
Acts 8:3
But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
Acts 22:3-4
"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.
Acts 26:9-10
Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
Galatians 1:13-14
For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.
2 Samuel 21:2
So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
2 Kings 10:16
Jehu said, "Come with me and see how zealous I am for the Lord's cause." So he took him along in his chariot.
Matthew 5:20
For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 23:25
"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Mark 10:20-21
The man said to him, "Teacher, I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth."
Luke 1:6
They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.
Acts 9:1-19
Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest
Acts 21:20
When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all ardent observers of the law.
Acts 26:5
They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.
Romans 7:9
And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
Romans 9:31-32
but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.
Romans 10:2-5
For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ's faithfulness -- a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ's faithfulness.
1 Timothy 1:13
even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,