Acts 9:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest”
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“Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,”
King James Version · Public Domain“But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 9:1 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
- Acts 7:58They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- Acts 8:3But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
- Acts 9:11“Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
- Acts 22:3“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.
- Acts 26:9So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- 1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
- Galatians 1:13For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
- Philippians 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
- 1 Timothy 1:13I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
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