1 Corinthians 15:9 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

More versions

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.

1 Corinthians 15:9 Cross References

Acts 8:3

But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and 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 superlative apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

Galatians 1:13

For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;

Galatians 1:23

they only heard it said, “He who once persecuted us is now preaching 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.