For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
But Saul was doing injury to the church, going in from house to house, and dragging away both men and women, and committing them to prison.
Be without offense, both toward Jews and toward Greeks, and toward the church of God,
For I consider myself in nothing to have been inferior to the most super apostles.
I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me! For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing have I been inferior to the super apostles, though I am nothing.
For you have heard of my former conduct at one time in Judaism, that beyond measure I used to persecute the church of God, and I was devastating it.
But they heard only, "He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which at one time he was devastating."
with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.