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

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,

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

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

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.

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

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