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Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

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For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

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For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

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And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

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But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

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To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

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And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.

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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.

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But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother.

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Now God is witness that the things which I am writing to you are true.

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Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia.

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And the churches of Judaea which were in Christ still had no knowledge of my face or person:

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Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him

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And they gave glory to God in me.