And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them and ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

But before very long there rushed down from the land a violent wind, called the northeaster;

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

not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

For the overseer must be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not fond of sordid gain,