Philippians 3:6

Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise. Why should you make yourself desolate?

And they were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and righteous requirements of the Lord.

But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he was delivering them into prison.

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city, having been instructed at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today,

Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;

so that you will be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own which is from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith,