His soul was saved until he stole some soles.

A repentant would-be robber — who left a Florida cellphone store empty-handed after his intended victim invoked Jesus — apparently had a short-lived epiphany.

Several hours after the store manager talked Israel Camacho, 37, of Coral Springs, out of a robbery, Camacho knocked off a shoe store a few miles away, police said.

MetroPCS manager Nayara Goncalves, 20, had calmly told Camacho about Jesus, getting him to leave her shop.

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You can’t keep a man apart from his gun in Texas.

Burglars broke into the home of Bruce Garner in June 1989 and ripped off his H&R nine-shot revolver. The thief was never caught but Kauffman County Sheriff’s deputies recently found the firearm at a pawn shop and traced it to Garner, 59.

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Newman was never this dedicated.

Mancel Prince, 91, recently retired as the US Postal Service’s oldest letter carrier. Prince drove 1.1 million miles along his rural Tennessee route during his 35-year career.

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US Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) is paying more attention to sex offenders than his own speedometer.

He was giving an interview to a Sacramento radio station about legislation to track international sex offenders when he was pulled over for speeding in Virginia. Lungren, who was talking on a hands-free device, was let off with a warning.

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The groom said, “I do . . . want to kill the bride.”

A Swedish couple was forced to nix their nuptials the night before their wedding after getting into a fight at a bar — with the groom being busted for threatening to murder his bride.

“It’s the first time we’ve searched somebody and found two wedding rings in their pockets,” a cop quipped.