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, Arise, and go into the street called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus; for lo! he prayeth,

and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul;

But Saul ravaged the church, entering house after house, and dragging both men and women, committed them to prison.

I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, hut brought up in this city, taught at the feet of Gamaliel in the strictness of the Law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.

I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

For I am the least of the apostles, one not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

For ye have heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and was destroying it,

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless.

though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a doer of outrage; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief;