1 Timothy 1:11-13

MNT(i) 11 as laid down in the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me. 12 And I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has thus enabled me, that he accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his service, 13 although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.