Acts 8:3 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
But Saul made havock of the church, entering in from house to house, and dragging away men and women, committed them to prison.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Then Saul was laying waste to the Church by entering throughout the houses, and dragging away men and women, and committing them to prison.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed [them] to prison.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.
LSV Literal Standard Version
and Saul was making havoc of the Assembly, entering into every house, and dragging away men and women, giving them up to prison;
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into the houses one after another, and dragging off both men and women delivered them up to prison.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and hauling men and women committed [them] to prison.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
But Saul made hauocke of the Church, and entred into euery house, and drewe out both men and women, and put them into prison.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
But Saul greatly harmed the church; he went into house after house and dragged out men and women, and put them into prison.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
But Saul made havocke of the congregacion entrynge into every housse and drewe out bothe man and woman and thrust the into preson.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;
FBV Free Bible Version
But Saul set about destroying the church, going from house to house, dragging both men and women off to prison.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
But Saul was burning with hate against the church, going into every house and taking men and women and putting them in prison.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Mas Saulo asolaba la Iglesia entrando por las casas; y sacando con violencia hombres y mugeres, las hacia poner en la cárcel.
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Entonces Saulo asolaba la iglesia, entrando por las casas: y trayendo hombres y mujeres, los entregaba en la cárcel.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Saulo, por su parte, iba por todas partes persiguiendo a la iglesia. Entraba a las casas, arrastraba a hombres y mujeres y los metía en la cárcel.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Saulo asolaba a la iglesia. Entraba de casa en casa, arrastraba a hombres y mujeres y [los] entregaba en [la] cárcel.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Pero Saulo comenzó a destruir a la iglesia, yendo de casa en casa, sacando a hombres y mujeres de ellas y arrastrándolos hasta la prisión.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Pero Saulo devastaba la iglesia. Entraba de casa en casa, arrastraba a hombres y mujeres y los metía en la cárcel.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
Σαῦλος δὲ ἐλυμαίνετο τὴν ἐκκλησίαν κατὰ τοὺς οἴκους εἰσπορευόμενος, σύρων τε ἄνδρας καὶ γυναῖκας παρεδίδου εἰς φυλακήν.
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
σαυλος δε ελυμαινετο την εκκλησιαν κατα τους οικους εισπορευομενος, συρων τε ανδρας και γυναικας παρεδιδου εις φυλακην.
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
Σαῦλος δὲ ἐλυμαίνετο τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, κατὰ τοὺς οἴκους εἰσπορευόμενος, σύρων τε ἄνδρας καὶ γυναῖκας παρεδίδου εἰς φυλακήν.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
σαυλοσ δε ελυμαινετο την εκκλησιαν κατα τουσ οικουσ εισπορευομενοσ συρων τε ανδρασ και γυναικασ παρεδιδου εισ φυλακην
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
Σαῦλος δὲ ἐλυμαίνετο τὴν ἐκκλησίαν κατὰ τοὺς οἴκους εἰσπορευόμενος, σύρων τε ἄνδρας καὶ γυναῖκας παρεδίδου εἰς φυλακήν.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
Σαῦλος δὲ ἐλυμαίνετο τὴν ἐκκλησίαν κατὰ τοὺς οἴκους εἰσπορευόμενος, σύρων τε ἄνδρας καὶ γυναῖκας παρεδίδου εἰς φυλακήν.
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Saulus autem devastabat ecclesiam per domos intrans, et trahens viros ac mulieres, tradebat in custodiam.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Са́ѵлъ же ѡ҆ѕлоблѧ́ше цр҃ковь, въ до́мы входѧ̀, и҆ влачѧ̀ мꙋ́жы и҆ жєны̀, предаѧ́ше въ темни́цꙋ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
А Савл терзал церковь, входя в домы и влача мужчин и женщин, отдавал в темницу.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Ο δε Σαύλος εκακοποίει την εκκλησίαν, εμβαίνων εις πάσαν οικίαν και σύρων άνδρας και γυναίκας, παρέδιδεν εις την φυλακήν.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
А Савле досађиваше цркви, јер иђаше по кућама, и вуцијаше људе и жене те предаваше у тамницу.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
A Savle dosađivaše crkvi, jer iđaše po kućama, i vucijaše ljude i žene te predavaše u tamnicu.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
وَأَمَّا شَاوُلُ فَكَانَ يَسْطُو عَلَى ٱلْكَنِيسَةِ، وَهُوَ يَدْخُلُ ٱلْبُيُوتَ وَيَجُرُّ رِجَالًا وَنِسَاءً وَيُسَلِّمُهُمْ إِلَى ٱلسِّجْنِ.
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC