Philippians 3:6

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Summary

Philippians 3:6

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

Zeal

Acts 21:20

Romans 10:2

Galatians 1:13

Persecuting

General references

Philippians 3:7

Bible References

Zeal

And they, hearing it, were glorifying God, and said to him, "You observe, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews, of those who have believed; and they are all zealous for the law.

For I testify for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge;

For ye heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that, beyond measure, I was persecuting the assembly of God, and laying it waste;

Persecuting

But Saul was laying waste the assembly, entering house after house; and, dragging men and women, was committing them to prison.

And Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, going to the high priest,

and he says, "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being zealous for God, even as ye all are to-day;

I, verily, therefore, imagined to myself that it was proper that I should do many things contrary to the name of Jesus, the Nazarene;

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy, because I, being ignorant, did it in unbelief;

General references

And he said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I observed from my youth."

But new wine must be put into fresh skins.

And he said, "All these I observed from my youth."

But Saul was laying waste the assembly, entering house after house; and, dragging men and women, was committing them to prison.

But what things were gain to me, these I accounted loss for Christ.