For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’, even though I am nothing.
Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.
They just kept hearing, ‘He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.’
regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.
For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I intensely persecuted God’s church and tried to destroy it.
Now I consider myself in no way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’,
Give no offence to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,