New American Standard Bible 1995

Galatians 1:11-24

11For 1I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is 2not according to man. 12For 3I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a 4revelation of Jesus Christ.

13For you have heard of 5my former manner of life in Judaism, how I 6used to persecute 7the church of God beyond measure and 8tried to destroy it; 14and I 9was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my 10countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my 11ancestral traditions. 15But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and 12called me through His grace, was pleased 16to reveal His Son in me so that I might 13preach Him among the Gentiles, 14I did not immediately consult with 15 16flesh and blood, 17 17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to 18Damascus.

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

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Notes

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

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