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But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

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For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

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And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,

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to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.

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But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.