1 Timothy 1:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

1 Timothy 1:13 —

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Cross-References

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Acts 8:3
As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
Hebrews 6:4-8
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, …
1 Peter 2:10
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
2 Peter 2:21-22
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. …
Acts 9:13
Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-17)

Here the apostle, I. Returns thanks to Jesus Christ for putting him into the ministry. Observe, 1. It is Christ’s work to put men into the ministry, Acts 26:16, 17. God condemned the false prophets among the Jews in these words, I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied, Jer. 23:21. Ministers, properly speaking, cannot make themselves ministers; f…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Who was before--Greek, “Formerly being a blasphemer.” “Notwithstanding that I was before a blasphemer,” &c. (Ac 26:9, 11). persecutor--(Ga 1:13). injurious--Greek, “insulter”; one who acts injuriously from arrogant contempt of others. Translate, Ro 1:30, “despiteful.” One who added insult to injury. Bengel translates, “a despiser.” I prefer the idea, contumelious to others [Wahl]. Still I agre…