• Acts 8:1
  Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
   
• Acts 8:3
  As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.
   
• Acts 9:1-2
  Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
   
• 1 Corinthians 15:9
  For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
   
• Philippians 3:5-6
  circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
   
• Acts 22:3-4
  “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today. I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
   
• Acts 26:9-11
  "Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. This I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them . And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
   

Related Scriptures

• Acts 7:57-58
  Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
   
• Acts 23:1
  Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.”