Galatians 1:13
For you have heard about my earlier life in Judaism how I kept violently persecuting God's church and was trying to destroy it.
Acts 8:3
But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.
Acts 9:21
Everyone who heard him was astonished and said, "This is the man who harassed those who were calling on Jesus' name in Jerusalem, isn't it? Didn't he come here to bring them in chains to the high priests?"
Acts 26:4-5
All the Jews know how I lived from the earliest days of my youth with my own people and in Jerusalem.
Acts 8:1
Now Saul heartily approved of putting Stephen to death. That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except for the apostles was scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria.
Acts 9:1-2
Meanwhile, still spewing death threats against the Lord's disciples, Saul went to the high priest.
Acts 9:13-14
But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell how much evil this man has done to your saints in Jerusalem.
Acts 9:26
When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they all were afraid of him because they wouldn't believe he was a disciple.
Acts 22:3-5
"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral Law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today.
Acts 26:9-11
Indeed, I myself thought it my duty to take extreme measures against the name of Jesus from Nazareth.
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles and not even fit to be called an apostle because I persecuted God's church.
Philippians 3:6
As for my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church. As far as righteousness in the Law is concerned, I was blameless.
1 Timothy 1:13
In the past I was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man. But I received mercy because I acted ignorantly in my unbelief,