Philippians 3:6

As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:

And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)