Acts 8:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ Saul,  however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ But Saul shamefully treated and laid waste the church continuously [with cruelty and violence]; and entering house after house, he dragged out men and women and committed them to prison.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.

Common English Bible

³ Saul began to wreak havoc against the church. Entering one house after another, he would drag off both men and women and throw them into prison.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Then Saul was laying waste to the Church by entering throughout the houses, and dragging away men and women, and committing them to prison.

Acts 8:3 Cross References

Acts 16:19

When her owners realised that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas  and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

Acts 22:19

‘But I said, “Lord, they know that in synagogue after synagogue I had those who believed in you imprisoned and beaten.

Acts 7:58

They dragged him out of the city and began to stone  him. And the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.

Acts 9:21

All who heard him were astounded and said, ‘Isn’t this the man in Jerusalem who was causing havoc for those who called on this name and came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests? ’

1 Corinthians 15:9

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

Galatians 1:13

For you have heard about my former way of life  in Judaism:  I intensely persecuted  God’s church and tried to destroy it.

Philippians 3:6

regarding zeal,  persecuting  the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law,  blameless.

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer,  a persecutor,  and an arrogant man.  But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief,

James 2:6

Yet you have dishonoured the poor.  Don’t the rich oppress you and drag  you into court?