For you have heard of my former conduct in the Judaism (of the Prushim), how that beyond measure I persecuted the Congregation of Elohim, and wasted it:
I 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 Gamliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the Torah of the fathers, and was zealous toward Elohim, as ye all are this day.
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the Elohim of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Torah and in the prophets: