10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
11For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.
12For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through revelation of Jesus Christ.
13For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews` religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:
14and I advanced in the Jews` religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, [even] from my mother`s womb, and called me through his grace,
16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:
