9As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him.
10Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
11Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.
12For 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.
13For 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:
14And 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.
15But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,
