But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
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.
But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;
as to zeal a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law blameless.
though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,