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Galatians 1:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For 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. "

Galatians 1:13

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11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

12 For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

13 For 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.

14 I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,

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2 Maccabees 14:38

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"For in the former times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, he had been accused of following the Jews’ religion, and had risked body and life with all earnestness for the religion of the Jews."

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Acts 26:4

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"“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;"

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Acts 22:3

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"“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."

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Mark 14:49

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"I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”"

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Malachi 2:9

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"“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law."

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Acts 20:28

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"Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood."

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Galatians 1:1

"Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—"

Galatians 1:2

"and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:"

Galatians 1:3

"Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,"

Galatians 1:4

"who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—"

Galatians 1:5

"to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen."

Galatians 1:6

"I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,"

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