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other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
\par 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
\par 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
\par 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught }{\i\f22 it, }{\f22 but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx204 {\f22 13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews\rquote  religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
\par 14 And profited in the Jews\rquote  religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx204 {\f22 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother\rquote s womb, and called }{\i\f22 me }{\f22 by his grace,
\par l6 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
\par 17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
\par 18 Then after three years ~I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
\par 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord\rquote s brother.
\par 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx204 {\f22 21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria, and Cilicia;
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx204 {\f22 22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
\par 23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx204 {\f22 24 And they glorified God in me.
\par }}