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 was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

If, however, the raw flesh once again turns white, then he must come to the priest.

"'If any person sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.

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

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.