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 you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.
• Acts 8:3But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.
• Acts 26:9–10“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• Acts 22:3–4“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
• Acts 26:5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
• Matt 5:20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Rom 9:31–32but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
• Rom 7:9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
• Matt 23:25“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
• Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
• Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
• Mark 10:20–21He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
• Acts 21:20They, when they heard it, glorified God. They 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.
• 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• 1 Cor 15:9For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
• 2 Kgs 10:16He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
• Acts 9:1–19But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
• 2 Sam 21:2The king called the Gibeonites, and said to 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 to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
• Rom 10:2–5For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

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