For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
They only were hearing it said, "He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness, under the law[3] blameless.
For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.
I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.
Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,