Acts 8:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to 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

But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the rulers;

Acts 22:19

And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in thee.

Acts 7:58

Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.

Acts 9:21

And all who heard him were amazed, and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called on this name? And he has come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests.”

1 Corinthians 15:9

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

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;

Philippians 3:6

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

1 Timothy 1:13

though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you, is it not they who drag you into court?