And his father never at any time checked him, saying, Why have you done [thus]? And he was also very handsome in appearance, and his mother bore him after Absalom.

And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"

and saying, "Men! Why are you doing these things? We men are of the same nature as you, preaching the gospel to you, that you must turn from these useless things to turn to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them,

Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

And you retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself. You had a whore's face; you became shameless toward all.

[This translation omits this verse.]

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame--who are mindful of earthly things.