1 Corinthians 15:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For I am the least [worthy] of the apostles, who am not fit or deserving to be called an apostle, because I once wronged and pursued and molested the church of God [oppressing it with cruelty and violence].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Common English Bible

⁹ I’m the least important of the apostles. I don’t deserve to be called an apostle, because I harassed God’s church.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For I am the least of the Apostles. I am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

1 Corinthians 15:9 Cross References

Acts 8:3

But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

2 Corinthians 11:5

I think that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

Galatians 1:13

You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it.

Galatians 1:23

they only heard it said, “The one who formerly was persecuting us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy.”

Philippians 3:6

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.