Galatians 1:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Acts 8:1

And Saul approved of their killing him. That day a severe persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria.

Acts 8:3

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

Acts 9:21

All who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem among those who invoked this name? And has he not come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”

Acts 9:26

When he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

1 Corinthians 15:9

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

Philippians 3:6

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

1 Timothy 1:13

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,

1 Timothy 1:14

and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.