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Acts 8:3
Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.
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Acts 9:13
“ Lord,” Ananias answered,“ I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.
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Hebrews 6:4-8
For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, became companions with the Holy Spirit,tasted God’s good word and the powers of the coming age,and who have fallen away, because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding Him up to contempt.For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.
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John 9:39-41
Jesus said,“ I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him,“ We aren’t blind too, are we?”“ If you were blind,” Jesus told them,“ you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say,‘ We see’— your sin remains.
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Acts 3:17
“ And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.
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Galatians 1:13
For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.
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Hebrews 10:26-29
For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.If anyone disregards Moses’ law, he dies without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
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Acts 22:4
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women in jail,
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Numbers 15:30
“ But the person who acts defiantly, whether native or foreign resident, blasphemes the Lord. That person is to be cut off from his people.
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1 Timothy 1 16
But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, the worst of them, Christ Jesus might demonstrate His extraordinary patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
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Romans 11:30-31
As you once disobeyed God, but now have received mercy through their disobedience,so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also now may receive mercy.
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Luke 23:34
Then Jesus said,“ Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided His clothes and cast lots.
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Romans 5:20-21
The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even moreso that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Acts 9:5
“ Who are You, Lord?” he said.“ I am Jesus, the One you are persecuting,” He replied.
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Hebrews 4:16
Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.
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Acts 26:9-11
In fact, I myself supposed it was necessary to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.I actually did this in Jerusalem, and I locked up many of the saints in prison, since I had received authority for that from the chief priests. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.In all the synagogues I often tried to make them blaspheme by punishing them. I even pursued them to foreign cities since I was greatly enraged at them.
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Hosea 2:23
I will sow her in the land for Myself, and I will have compassion on No Compassion; I will say to Not My People: You are My people, and he will say,“ You are My God.”
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Acts 9:1
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest
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Philippians 3:6
regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.
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Luke 12:47
And that slave who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.
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2 Peter 2 21-2 Peter 2 22
For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and,“ a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”
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1 Corinthians 7 25
About virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I do give an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
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1 Corinthians 15 9
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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1 Peter 2 10
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.