For I am the least of the emissaries, unworthy to be called an emissary because I persecuted God’s community.
But Saul was destroying Messiah’s community, entering house after house; and dragging off men and women, he was throwing them into prison.
Give no offense either to Jewish or Greek people or to God’s community—
For I consider myself in no way inferior to the “super special” emissaries.
I have become a fool—you drove me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to the super-special emissaries—though I am nothing.
For you have heard of my earlier behavior in Judaism—how I persecuted God’s community beyond measure and tried to destroy it.
they only kept hearing, “The one who once persecuted us now proclaims the Good News he once tried to destroy!”
as for zeal, persecuting Messiah’s community; as for Torah righteousness, found blameless.