Thematic Bible: Manifested by evil men in pursuing their plans


Thematic Bible



In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.

They are determined to be experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!


In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.

They are determined to be experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!


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