For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
I am become foolish: you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: for I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.
But Saul made havock of the church, entering in from house to house, and dragging away men and women, committed them to prison.
But they had heard only: He, who persecuted us in times past, doth now preach the faith which once he impugned:
According to zeal, persecuting the church of God; according to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.
For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it.
For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.
Be without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the church of God: