Acts 9:1

English Standard Version 2016

But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

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

though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

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

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

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.

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

Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.