²⁹ “When a man or a woman has a disease on the head or in the beard,^(A)

¹¹ For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,^{(A) 12} so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.^(B)

³ And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.^{(A) 4} In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.^(B)

⁹ “Indeed, I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.^{[a](A) 10} And that is what I did in Jerusalem; with authority received from the chief priests, I not only locked up many of the saints in prison, but I also cast my vote against them when they were being condemned to death.^(B)

³ “I am a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated strictly according to our ancestral law, being zealous for God, just as all of you are today.^{(A) 4} I persecuted this Way up to the point of death by binding both men and women and putting them in prison,^(B)

² They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God.^{(A) 3} And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.^(B)

¹⁴ With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:

²³ but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!