9. as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive--anathema let him be!
10. for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.
11. And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,
12. for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught [it], but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,
13. for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,
14. and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,
15. and when God was well pleased--having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called [me] through His grace--
16. to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,
17. nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,
18. then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,
19. and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.
20. And the things that I write to you, lo, before God--I lie not;
21. then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,
22. and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that [are] in Christ,
23. and only they were hearing, that `he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news--the faith that then he was wasting;'