Acts 8:3 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³ But Saul was doing injury to the church, going in from house to house, and dragging away both men and women, and putting 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ But Saul made havock of the church, entering in from house to house, and dragging away men and women, committed them to prison.

Acts 8:3 Cross References

Acts 16:19

And when her masters saw that the hope of their profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, and dragged [them] to the marketplace to the rulers.

Acts 22:19

"And I said, 'Lord, they know that in every synagogue I was imprisoning and beating those believing on You.

Acts 7:58

and casting him outside the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes beside the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 8:2

And godly men buried Stephen, and they mourned deeply for him.

Acts 9:21

And all those who heard were astounded, and were saying, "Is this not the one who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and has come here for that purpose, so that he might take them having been bound, to the chief priests?"

1 Corinthians 15:9

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

Galatians 1:13

For you have heard of my former conduct at one time in Judaism, that beyond measure I used to persecute the church of God, and I was devastating it.

Philippians 3:6

with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

1 Timothy 1:13

I, who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I was shown mercy, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into court?