9. As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one announce to you as glad tidings anything besides what ye have received, let him be accursed.
10. For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.
11. But I let you know, brethren, as to the glad tidings which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.
12. For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I taught them, but by revelation of Jesus Christ.
13. For ye have heard what was my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it;
14. and advanced in Judaism beyond many my contemporaries in my nation, being exceedingly zealous of the doctrines of my fathers.
15. But when God, who set me apart even from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
16. was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not counsel with flesh and blood,
17. nor went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.