Galatians 1:13-14

Paul Called by God

¹³ For you have heard of _y my former life in Judaism, how _z I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. ¹⁴ And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely _a zealous was I for _b the traditions of my fathers.

1. Cross References
   Acts 26:4
   My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
   
2. Cross References
   Acts 8:3
   But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
   
3. Cross References
   Philippians 3:6
   As to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
   Acts 21:20
   And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law.
   
4. Cross References
   Jeremiah 9:14
   But have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.
   2 Timothy 1:3
   I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
   Matthew 15:2
   "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."