New American Standard Bible 1995

Galatians 1:10-24

10For am I now 1seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a 2bond-servant of Christ.

11For 3I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is 4not according to man. 12For 5I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a 6revelation of Jesus Christ.

13For you have heard of 7my former manner of life in Judaism, how I 8used to persecute 9the church of God beyond measure and 10tried to destroy it; 14and I 11was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my 12countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my 13ancestral traditions. 15But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and 14called me through His grace, was pleased 16to reveal His Son in me so that I might 15preach Him among the Gentiles, 16I did not immediately consult with 17 18flesh and blood, 17 19nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to 20Damascus.

18Then 21three years later I went up 22to Jerusalem to 23become acquainted with 24Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days. 19But I did not see any other of the apostles except 25 26James, the Lord’s brother. 20(Now in what I am writing to you, 27I assure you 28before God that I am not lying.) 21Then 29I went into the regions of 30Syria and 31Cilicia. 22I was still unknown by 32sight to 33the churches of Judea which were 34in Christ; 23but only, they kept hearing, “He who once persecuted us is now preaching 35the faith which he once 36tried to destroy.” 24And they 37were glorifying God 38because of me.

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Notes

1. Galatians 1:10 1 Cor 10:33; 1 Thess 2:4 ↩
2. Galatians 1:10 Rom 1:1; Phil 1:1 ↩
3. Galatians 1:11 Rom 2:16; 1 Cor 15:1 ↩
4. Galatians 1:11 1 Cor 3:4; 9:8 ↩
5. Galatians 1:12 1 Cor 11:23; Gal 1:1 ↩
6. Galatians 1:12 1 Cor 2:10; 2 Cor 12:1; Gal 1:16; 2:2 ↩
7. Galatians 1:13 Acts 26:4f ↩
8. Galatians 1:13 Acts 8:3; 22:4, 5 ↩
9. Galatians 1:13 1 Cor 10:32 ↩
10. Galatians 1:13 Acts 9:21 ↩
11. Galatians 1:14 Acts 22:3 ↩
12. Galatians 1:14 Lit race ↩
13. Galatians 1:14 Jer 9:14; Matt 15:2; Mark 7:3; Col 2:8 ↩
14. Galatians 1:15 Is 49:1, 5; Jer 1:5; Acts 9:15; Rom 1:1; Gal 1:6 ↩
15. Galatians 1:16 Acts 9:15; Gal 2:9 ↩
16. Galatians 1:16 Acts 9:20 ↩
17. Galatians 1:16 I.e. human beings ↩
18. Galatians 1:16 Matt 16:17 ↩
19. Galatians 1:17 Acts 9:19-22 ↩
20. Galatians 1:17 Acts 9:2 ↩
21. Galatians 1:18 Acts 9:22f ↩
22. Galatians 1:18 Acts 9:26 ↩
23. Galatians 1:18 Or visit Cephas ↩
24. Galatians 1:18 John 1:42; Gal 2:9, 11, 14 ↩
25. Galatians 1:19 Or Jacob ↩
26. Galatians 1:19 Matt 12:46; Acts 12:17 ↩
27. Galatians 1:20 Lit behold before God ↩
28. Galatians 1:20 Rom 9:1; 2 Cor 1:23; 11:31 ↩
29. Galatians 1:21 Acts 9:30 ↩
30. Galatians 1:21 Acts 15:23, 41 ↩
31. Galatians 1:21 Acts 6:9 ↩
32. Galatians 1:22 Lit face ↩
33. Galatians 1:22 1 Cor 7:17; 1 Thess 2:14 ↩
34. Galatians 1:22 Rom 16:7 ↩
35. Galatians 1:23 Acts 6:7; Gal 6:10 ↩
36. Galatians 1:23 Acts 9:21 ↩
37. Galatians 1:24 Matt 9:8 ↩
38. Galatians 1:24 Lit in me ↩

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