Philippians 3:6

In zeal he persecuted the church and was blameless by the law's righteousness. His religious zeal was intense but misdirected.

Cross-references · 19

• Gal 1:13–14For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
• Acts 8:3As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
• Acts 26:9–10I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• Acts 22:3–4I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
• Acts 26:5Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
• Matt 5:20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
• Rom 9:31–32But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
• Rom 7:9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
• Matt 23:25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
• Phil 3:9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
• Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Mark 10:20–21And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
• Acts 21:20And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
• 1 Tim 1:13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• 1 Cor 15:9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
• 2 Kgs 10:16And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
• Acts 9:1–19And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
• 2 Sam 21:2And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
• Rom 10:2–5For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

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