Galatians 1:13

But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he was delivering them into prison.

And all those hearing him continued to be astounded, and were saying, “Is this not the one who in Jerusalem destroyed those that called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”

“So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;

and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.