Acts 26:9
Acts 26:9-11 The Message (MSG)
“I admit that I didn’t always hold to this position. For a time I thought it was my duty to oppose this Jesus of Nazareth with all my might. Backed with the full authority of the high priests, I threw these believers—I had no idea they were God’s people!—into the Jerusalem jail right and left, and whenever it came to a vote, I voted for their execution. I stormed through their meeting places, bullying them into cursing Jesus, a one-man terror obsessed with obliterating these people. And then I started on the towns outside Jerusalem.
Acts 26:9 King James Version (KJV)
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26:9 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26:9 New Century Version (NCV)
“I, too, thought I ought to do many things against Jesus from Nazareth.
Acts 26:9 American Standard Version (ASV)
I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26:9 New International Version (NIV)
“I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26:9 New King James Version (NKJV)
“Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26:9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“So then, I [once] thought to myself that it was my duty to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26:9 New Living Translation (NLT)
“I used to believe that I ought to do everything I could to oppose the very name of Jesus the Nazarene.