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Acts 22:19-20
“ But I said,‘ Lord, they know that in synagogue after synagogue I had those who believed in You imprisoned and beaten.And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing by and approving, and I guarded the clothes of those who killed him.’
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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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Acts 8:1-4
Saul agreed with putting him to death. On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.So those who were scattered went on their way preaching the message of good news.
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Acts 9:21
But all who heard him were astounded and said,“ Isn’t this the man who, in Jerusalem, was destroying those who called on this name and then came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
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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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Philippians 3:6
regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.
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Acts 19:23
During that time there was a major disturbance about the Way.
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Acts 7:58
They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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Acts 9:13-14
“ Lord,” Ananias answered,“ I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.And he has authority here from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”
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Acts 9:1-2
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priestand requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
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Acts 18:26
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. After Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the way of God to him more accurately.
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Acts 16:17
As she followed Paul and us she cried out,“ These men, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation, are the slaves of the Most High God.”
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Acts 24:14
But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.
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Acts 19:9
But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them and met separately with the disciples, conducting discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
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1 Timothy 1 13-1 Timothy 1 15
one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.And the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance:“ Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”— and I am the worst of them.