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1 Timothy 1 13
although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
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Galatians 1:13
For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
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1 Corinthians 15 9
For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
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Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
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Acts 7:58
They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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Acts 22:19
I said,‘ Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
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Acts 9:21
All who heard him were amazed, and said,“ Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”
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Acts 26:9-11
“ I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
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James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
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Acts 9:1-13
But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priestand asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him,“ Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”He said,“ Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said,“ I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision,“ Ananias!” He said,“ Behold, it’s me, Lord.”The Lord said to him,“ Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight.”But Ananias answered,“ Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.
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Acts 22:3-4
“ I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.