Acts 9:1

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Acts 9:1

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

Saul

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Saul

And the Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying,

Then they cast him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But Saul began ravaging the church, and, entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit 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 intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it;

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

Even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor, I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;