Paul was a bad person...but he changed.

Paul Changed

 

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes  

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

James 1:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes  

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes  

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

1 John 5:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes  

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes  

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes  

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes  

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes  

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes  

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes  

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes  

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes  

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,