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For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.
I have become foolish; you yourselves compelled me. Actually I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am a nobody.
of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;
Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,
“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.
For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it;
but only, they kept hearing, “He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy.”
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.