Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest
Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.
When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.
But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.
In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,