New American Standard Bible 2020

Galatians 1:12-24

12For 1I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a 2revelation of Jesus Christ.

13For you have heard of 3my former way of life in Judaism, how I 4used to persecute 5the church of God beyond measure and 6tried to destroy it; 14and I 7was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my 8countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my 9ancestral traditions. 15But when 10He who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and 11called me through His grace was pleased 16to reveal His Son in me so that I might 12preach Him among the Gentiles, 13I did not immediately consult with 14 15flesh and blood, 17 16nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to 17Damascus.

18Then 18three years later I went up 19to Jerusalem to 20become acquainted with 21 22Cephas, and stayed with him for fifteen days. 19But I did not see another one 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 are 32in Christ; 23but they only kept hearing, “The man 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 1:12 1 Cor 11:23; Gal 1:1 ↩
2. Galatians 1:12 1 Cor 2:10; 2 Cor 12:1; Gal 1:16; 2:2 ↩
3. Galatians 1:13 Acts 26:4f ↩
4. Galatians 1:13 Acts 8:3; 22:4, 5 ↩
5. Galatians 1:13 1 Cor 10:32 ↩
6. Galatians 1:13 Acts 9:21 ↩
7. Galatians 1:14 Acts 22:3 ↩
8. Galatians 1:14 Lit race ↩
9. Galatians 1:14 Jer 9:14; Matt 15:2; Mark 7:3; Col 2:8 ↩
10. Galatians 1:15 One early ms God who ↩
11. Galatians 1:15 Is 49:1, 5; Jer 1:5; Acts 9:15; Rom 1:1; Gal 1:6 ↩
12. Galatians 1:16 Acts 9:15; Gal 2:9 ↩
13. Galatians 1:16 Acts 9:20 ↩
14. Galatians 1:16 I.e., people ↩
15. Galatians 1:16 Matt 16:17 ↩
16. Galatians 1:17 Acts 9:19-22 ↩
17. Galatians 1:17 Acts 9:2 ↩
18. Galatians 1:18 Acts 9:22f ↩
19. Galatians 1:18 Acts 9:26 ↩
20. Galatians 1:18 Or visit ↩
21. Galatians 1:18 I.e., Peter ↩
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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