Galatians 1:13-14 For you have heard about the way I lived in the past, when I was in the Jewish religion, that is, how I mercilessly persecuted the church of God, making havoc of it.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ For you have heard about the way I lived in the past, when I was in the Jewish religion, [that is], how I mercilessly persecuted the church of God, making havoc of it. ¹⁴ I advanced in the Jewish religion beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen. I have been extremely more zealous in advocating the traditions [taught] by my forefathers.