‘’I AM VERY SORRY, I WAS IGNORANT, INSOLENT AND ACTED WITHOUT FAITH’’ ----APOSTLE PAUL ‘’I AM NOT FIT TO BE CALLED AN APOSTLE’’ 1 CORINTHIANS 14: 9 For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation of God. ACTS 7:46 58 And after throwing him outside the city, they began casting stones at him. And the witnesses laid down their outer garments at the feet of a young man called Saul. 59 And they went on casting stones at Stephen as he made appeal and said: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 Then, bending his knees, he cried out with a strong voice: “Jehovah, do not charge this sin against them.” And after saying this he fell asleep in death. ACTS 8: 3 Saul, though, began to deal outrageously with the congregation. Invading one house after another and, dragging out both men and women, he would turn them over to prison. ACTS 26: 10 which, in fact, I did in Jerusalem, and many of the holy ones I locked up in prisons, as I had received authority from the chief priests; and when they were to be executed, I cast my vote against them. 11 And by punishing them many times in all the synagogues I tried to force them to make a recantation; and since I was extremely mad against them, I went so far as to persecuting them even in outside cities. 1 TIMOTHY 1: 12 I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who imparted power to me, because he considered me faithful by assigning me to a ministry, 13 although formerly I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man. Nevertheless, I was shown mercy, s because I was ignorant and acted with a lack of faith. ‘’BUT I LABORED IN EXCESS OF THEM ALL’’ 1 CORINTHIANS 14: 9 For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation of God. 10 But by God’s undeserved kindness I am what I am. And his undeserved kindness that was toward me did not prove to be in vain, but I labored in excess of them all, yet not I but the undeserved kindness of God that is with me. 11 However, whether it is I or they, so we are preaching and so YOU have believed. ACTS 26: 20 but both to those in Damascus first and to those in Jerusalem, and over all the country of Judea, and to the nations I went bringing the message that they should repent and turn to God by doing works that befit repentance. ROMANS 15: 20 In this way, indeed, I made it my aim not to declare the good news where Christ had already been named, in order that I might not be building on another man’s foundation; 21 but, just as it is written: “Those to whom no announcement has been made about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.” ‘’I AM CLEAN FROM THE BLOOD OF ALL MEN’’ ROMANS 15: 19 with the power of signs and portents, with the power of holy spirit; so that from Jerusalem and in a circuit as far as Illyricum I have thoroughly preached the good news about the Christ. ACTS 20: 26 Hence I call YOU to witness this very day that I am clean from the blood of all men, 27 for I have not held back from telling YOU all the counsel of God. 28 Pay attention to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the holy spirit has appointed YOU overseers, to shepherd the congregation of God, which he purchased with the blood of his own Son. ‘’THERE IS RESERVED FOR ME THE CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS’’ 2 CORINTHIANS 11: 22 Are they Hebrews? I am one also. Are they Israelites? I am one also. Are they Abraham’s seed? I am also. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? I reply like a madman, I am more outstandingly one: in labors more plentifully, in prisons more plentifully, in blows to an excess, in near-deaths often. 24 By Jews I five times received forty strokes less one, 25 three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I experienced shipwreck, a night and a day I have spent in the deep; 26 in journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from highwaymen, in dangers from my own race, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers, 27 in labor and toil, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in abstinence from food many times, in cold and nakedness. 2 TIMOTHY 4: 7 I have fought the fine fight, I have run the course to the finish, I have observed the faith. 8 From this time on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me as a reward in that day, yet not only to me, but also to all those who have loved his manifestation.
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