Galatians 1:13
For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;
Acts 8:3
But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.
Acts 9:21
His hearers were all astonished, and began to say. "Is not this the very man who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called upon the Name? Did he not come hither for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"
Acts 26:4-5
"The kind of life I have lived from my youth upward among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early life of mine, is well known to all the Jews.
Acts 8:1
With these words he fell asleep. And Saul fully approved of his murder. On this very day there broke out a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostle were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
Acts 9:1-2
Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 9:13-14
"But, Lord," said Ananias, "I have heard from many about that man, and how much evil he did to the saints at Jerusalem!
Acts 9:26
So he came to Jerusalem, and attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple.
Acts 22:3-5
"I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day.
Acts 26:9-11
"I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Philippians 3:6
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.
1 Timothy 1:13
although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.