Acts 9:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Meanwhile 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 by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it.

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

Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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

Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen against me, and they are breathing out violence.