9. As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!
10. For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.
11. Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not based on human thought.
12. For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation from Jesus Christ.
13. For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.
14. I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
15. But when God, who from my birth set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased
16. to reveal His Son in me, so that I could preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.