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Galatians 1:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

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The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

I will announce your verdict, and the objects you made will not help you.

And when they say to you, “Where shall we go?” you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: Those destined for pestilence, to pestilence, and those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine, and those destined for captivity, to captivity.

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.

But if the raw flesh again turns white, he shall come to the priest;

So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word of God.

When they heard it, they praised God. Then they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealous for the law.

“I am a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated strictly according to our ancestral law, being zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that I have belonged to the strictest sect of our religion and lived as a Pharisee.

“Indeed, I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

Although you have not seen him, you love him, and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,




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