Galatians 1:13

WEB

¹³For 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.

KJV

¹³For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

BSB

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.

FBV

¹³You heard how I behaved as a follower of the Jewish religion—how I fanatically persecuted God's church, savagely trying to destroy it.

Related Resources

The Sovereign Roots of Paul’s Apostleship: Galatians 1:11–17, Part 3 - Desiring God
Why Did God Let Paul Persecute Christians? Galatians 1:11–17, Part 4 - Desiring God
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Was Paul Really the World’s Worst Sinner? - Desiring God

Extra References

Acts 8:3

³But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

³“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. ⁴I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, ⁵as also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

1 Corinthians 15:9

⁹For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

Acts 9:21

²¹All 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!”

Acts 26:4-5

⁴“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem; ⁵having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Acts 9:26

²⁶When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

Philippians 3:6

⁶concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

Acts 26:9-11

⁹“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰I 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. ¹¹Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Acts 9:13-14

¹³But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem. ¹⁴Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

1 Timothy 1:13

¹³although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.