1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8and last of all, as by one born out of due time, he was seen by me also.
Cross References
Acts 8:3But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.
Acts 22:4"I persecuted to the death this way, continually binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women.
2 Corinthians 11:5For I reckon that I am in no respect behind your superapostolic apostles.
Galatians 1:13For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;
Ephesians 3:7It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.
1 Timothy 1:13although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:2-12
The Resurrection of Christ. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5 And that he… Read the whole commentary →