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1 Corinthians 15:9

For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called an Apostle--because I persecuted the Church of God.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

In Context

8And last of all, as to one of untimely birth, He appeared to me also.

10But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.

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Cross References

Acts 8:3But Saul cruelly harassed the Church. He went into house after house, and, dragging off both men and women, threw them into prison.

Acts 22:4I persecuted to death this new faith, continually binding both men and women and throwing them into prison;

2 Corinthians 11:5Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those superlatively great Apostles.

Galatians 1:13For you have heard of my early career in Judaism--how I furiously persecuted the Church of God, and made havoc of it;

Ephesians 3:7in which I have been appointed to serve, in virtue of the work which God, in the exercise of His power within me, has graciously entrusted to me.

1 Timothy 1:13though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and had been insolent in outrage. Yet mercy was shown me, because I had acted ignorantly, not having as yet believed;

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 →

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