1 Timothy 1:13

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Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

but Saul made havoc of the church by entering one house after another, dragging off men and women, and consigning them to prison.

Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women,

I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" ??he said to the paralytic,

Everyone also who says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven for it, but he who blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never be forgiven.

For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

of sin, because they do not believe in me;

but Saul made havoc of the church by entering one house after another, dragging off men and women, and consigning them to prison.