Gal 1:13-14 | ESV | STEP | For you have heard of my former life in Judaism , how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it .

d[Jer. 9:14; 2 Tim. 1:3]; See Matt. 15:2

‏ Galatians 1:13-14

13 For you have heard of ^amy former life in Judaism, how ^bI 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 ^czealous was I for ^dthe traditions of my fathers.