1 Timothy 1:13

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Summary

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

Was

Philippians 3:6

General references

Acts 8:3

Bible References

Was

But Saul continued to harass the church, and by going from house to house and dragging off men and women he continued to put them into prison.

Now Saul, as he was still breathing threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

I persecuted this Way even to the death, and kept on binding both men and women and putting them in jail,

I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

For I belong to the lowest rank of the apostles, and am not fit to bear the title apostle, because I once persecuted the church of God.

You have heard, indeed, of my former conduct as an adherent of the Jewish religion, how I kept on furiously persecuting the church of God, and tried to destroy it,

by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

General references

But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralyzed man He said,

And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but no one who speaks abusively about the Holy Spirit will be forgiven.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the people that are lost."

about sin, because they do not believe in me;

But Saul continued to harass the church, and by going from house to house and dragging off men and women he continued to put them into prison.