Philippians 3:6

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Philippians 3:6

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

Zeal

Galatians 1:13

Persecuting

General references

Bible References

Zeal

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.)

Jehu said, "Come with me and see how zealous I am for the Lord's cause." So he took him along in his chariot.

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.

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

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.

Persecuting

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.

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest

"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.

Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

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,

General references

If, however, the raw flesh once again turns white, then he must come to the priest.

The man said to him, "Teacher, I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth."

Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

The man replied, "I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth."

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.

But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.