In Summary, Sha’ul was a Murderous Blasphemer Against יהושע Messiah from the Beginning, a Thief During His So-Called “Ministry”, and a Liar to the End, Who Even Confessed to Suffering a Long-Standing Affliction of Demon-Possession Which He Was Unable to Receive Deliverance From Throughout His Years of Preaching
‘But he, being filled with the Set-apart Spirit, looked steadily into the heaven and saw the esteem of Elohim, and יהושע standing at the right hand of Elohim, and he said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Aḏam standing at the right hand of Elohim!” And crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one mind, and threw him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Sha’ul. And they were stoning Stephanos as he was calling and saying, “Master יהושע, receive my spirit.” And kneeling down he cried out with a loud voice, “Master, do not hold this sin against them.” And having said this, he fell asleep.’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 7:55-60
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.7.55-60
‘And Sha’ul was giving approval to his death. And on that day there was a great persecution against the assembly which was at Yerushalayim, and they were all scattered throughout the countries of Yehuḏah and Shomeron, except the emissaries. And dedicated men buried Stephanos, and made great lamentation over him. But Sha’ul was ravaging the assembly, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, putting them in prison.’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 8:1-3
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.8.1-3
‘But Sha’ul, still breathing threats and murder against the taught ones of the Master, having come to the high priest, asked from him letters to the congregations of Dammeseq, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, to bring them bound to Yerushalayim.’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 9:1-2
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.9.1-2
‘And Ḥananyah answered, “Master, I have heard from many about this man, how many evils he did to Your set-apart ones in Yerushalayim, and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all those calling on Your Name.”’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 9:13-14
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.9.13-14
‘“I am indeed a Yehuḏi, having been born in Tarsos of Kilikia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamli’ĕl, having been instructed according to the exactness of the Torah of our fathers, being ardent for Elohim, as you all are today, who persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering up into prisons both men and women, as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom I also received letters to the brothers, and went to Dammeseq to bring in chains even those who were there to Yerushalayim to be punished.’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 22:3-5
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.22.3-5
‘which also I did in Yerushalayim, and I shut up many of the set-apart ones in prison, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were put to death, I gave my vote against them. “And punishing them often in all the congregations, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 26:10-11
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.26.10-11
‘For if the truth of Elohim has increased through my lie, to His esteem, why am I also still judged as a sinner?’
- Romiyim (Romans) 3:7
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ROM.3.7
‘For we know that the Torah is Spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. For what I work, I know not. For what I wish, that I do not practise, but what I hate, that I do. But if I do what I do not wish, I agree with the Torah that it is good. And now, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to work the good I do not find. For the good that I wish to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not wish to do, this I practise. And if I do that which I do not wish, it is no longer I who work it, but the sin dwelling in me. I find therefore this law, that when I wish to do the good, that the evil is present with me. For I delight in the Torah of Elohim according to the inward man, but I see another torah in my members, battling against the torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the torah of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death? Thanks to Elohim, through יהושע Messiah our Master! So then, with the mind I myself truly serve the Torah of Elohim, but with the flesh the torah of sin.’
- Romiyim (Romans) 7:14-25
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ROM.7.14-25
‘Or do only Barnaḇa and I have no right to refrain from working? Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not feed on the milk of the flock? Do I say this as a man? Or does not the Torah say the same too? For it has been written in the Torah of Mosheh, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it about oxen Elohim is concerned? Or does He say it because of us all? For this was written because of us, that he who ploughs should plough in expectation, and the thresher in expectation of sharing. If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material goods from you? If others share authority over you, should not rather we? But we have not used this authority, but we put up with all, lest we hinder the Good News of Messiah. Do you not know that those serving the Set-apart Place eat from the Set-apart Place, and those attending at the slaughter-place have their share of the offerings of the slaughter-place? So also the Master instituted that those announcing the Good News should live from the Good News.’
- Qorintiyim Aleph (1 Corinthians) 9:6-14
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1CO.9.6-14
‘And concerning the collections for the set-apart ones, you are to do as I gave orders to the assemblies of Galatia: Every day one of the week let each one of you set aside, storing up whatever he is prospered, so that there are no collections when I come. And when I come, whomever you approve by your letters, I shall send to bear your gift to Yerushalayim. And if it is fitting for me to go, they shall go with me.’
- Qorintiyim Aleph (1 Corinthians) 16:1-4
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1CO.16.1-4
‘Other assemblies I robbed, by receiving wages from them to serve you.’
- Qorintiyim Bĕt (2 Corinthians) 11:8
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/2CO.11.8
‘And to keep me from exalting myself because of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to hit me, to keep me from exalting myself. Concerning this I pleaded with the Master three times to take it away from me. And He said to me, “My favour is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, then, I shall rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Messiah rests on me. Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Messiah. For when I am weak, then I am strong. I have become a fool – you have compelled me. For I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I behind the most eminent emissaries, though I am a nobody. Indeed, the signs of an emissary were wrought among you with all endurance, in signs and wonders and powers.’
- Qorintiyim Bĕt (2 Corinthians) 12:7-12
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/2CO.12.7-12
‘But be it so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, did I catch you with guile?’
- Qorintiyim Bĕt (2 Corinthians) 12:16
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/2CO.12.16
‘For you have heard of my former behaviour in Yehuḏaism, how intensely I persecuted the assembly of Elohim, and ravaged it. And I progressed in Yehuḏaism beyond many of my age in my race, being more exceedingly ardent for the traditions of my fathers.’
- Galatiyim (Galatians) 1:13-14
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/GAL.1.13-14
‘But you know that through weakness of the flesh I brought the Good News to you before. And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as a messenger of Elohim, as Messiah יהושע.’
- Galatiyim (Galatians) 4:13-14
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/GAL.4.13-14
‘And I thank Messiah יהושע our Master who empowered me, because He counted me trustworthy, putting me into service, me, although I was formerly a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter. But compassion was shown me because being ignorant I did it in unbelief.’
- Timotiyos Aleph (1 Timothy) 1:12-13
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1TI.1.12-13
Torah and יהושע Messiah Instructed Followers of יהוה Against Lying, Thieving and Murdering, While Connecting the Committing of Such Acts Together as the Works of Satan
‘“You do not murder.’
- Shemoth (Exodus) 20:13
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/EXO.20.13
‘“You do not steal.’
- Shemoth (Exodus) 20:15
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/EXO.20.15
‘“You do not bear false witness against your neighbour.’
- Shemoth (Exodus) 20:16
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/EXO.20.16
‘“Keep yourself far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I do not declare the wrong right.’
- Shemoth (Exodus) 23:7
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/EXO.23.7
‘‘Do not steal, do not lie, do not deceive one another.’
- Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 19:11
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/LEV.19.11
‘”Ěl is not a man, to lie; nor a son of man, to repent! Has He said, and would He not do it; or spoken, and would not confirm it?’
- Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 23:19
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/NUM.23.19
‘“And יהוה said to me, ‘What they have spoken is good. I shall raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And it shall be, the man who does not listen to My Words which He speaks in My Name, I require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My Name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other mighty ones, even that prophet shall die.’ “And when you say in your heart, ‘How do we know the word which יהוה has not spoken?’ – when the prophet speaks in the Name of יהוה and the word is not, or comes not, that is the word which יהוה has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.’
- Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 18:17-22
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/DEU.18.17-22
‘(Cursed is he who is slack in doing the work of יהוה, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from blood).’
- Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 48:10
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/JER.48.10
‘He who practises deceit Does not dwell in my house; He who speaks lies Does not stand in my presence.’
- Tehillim (Psalms) 101:7
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PSA.101.7
‘Buy the truth and do not sell it – Wisdom and discipline and understanding.’
- Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 23:23
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PRO.23.23
‘He who shares with a thief hates his own life; He hears an oath, but does not report.’
- Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 29:24
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PRO.29.24
‘“And as you go, proclaim, saying, ‘The reign of the heavens has drawn near.’ “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. You have received without paying, give without being paid. “Do not acquire gold or silver or copper for your money -belts, or a bag for the journey, or two undergarments, or sandals, or staffs, for the worker is worthy of his food.’
- Mattithyahu (Matthew) 10:7-10
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/MAT.10.7-10
‘“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.’
- Yoḥanan (John) 8:44
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/JHN.8.44
‘“The thief does not come except to steal, and to slaughter, and to destroy. I have come that they might possess life, and that they might possess it beyond measure.’
- Yoḥanan (John) 10:10
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/JHN.10.10
‘Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. Everyone staying in Him does not sin. Everyone sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him. Little children, let no one lead you astray. The one doing righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil. Everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, because His seed stays in him, and he is powerless to sin, because he has been born of Elohim. In this the children of Elohim and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone not doing righteousness is not of Elohim, neither the one not loving his brother. Because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous.’
- Yoḥanan Aleph (1 John) 3:4-12
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1JN.3.4-12
‘Beloved ones, you are acting trustworthily in whatever you do for the brothers and for strangers, who have borne witness of your love before the assembly. If you send them forward worthily of Elohim, you shall do well, because they went out for the sake of the Name, receiving naught from the nations. Therefore we ought to receive such, so that we become fellow workers for the truth.’
- Yoḥanan Gimel (3 John) 1:5-8
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/3JN.1.5-8
‘Shepherd the flock of Elohim which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but voluntarily, not out of greed for filthy gain, but eagerly, neither as being masters over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.’
- Kĕpha Aleph (1 Peter) 5:2-3
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1PE.5.2-3
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