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 harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.

Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest,

I persecuted this Way even to the death, and bound both men and women and put them in prison,

I once thought it my duty vigorously to oppose the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion??ow furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,

as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

But to let you know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralytic he said,

And anyone who speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but no one who reviles the holy Spirit will be forgiven.

For the Son of Man has come to search for what was lost and to save it."

about sin, as shown in their not believing in me;

But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.