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Acts 9:1

Tree of Life Version

Now Saul, still breathing out threats and murder against the Lord’s disciples, went to the kohen gadol .

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Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes. For false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

Driving him out of the city, they began stoning him, and the witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But Saul was destroying Messiah’s community, entering house after house; and dragging off men and women, he was throwing them into prison.

For I am the least of the emissaries, unworthy to be called an emissary because I persecuted God’s community.

For you have heard of my earlier behavior in Judaism—how I persecuted God’s community beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

as for zeal, persecuting Messiah’s community; as for Torah righteousness, found blameless.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man. Yet I was shown mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,