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Amen.<a id="ren55001005-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001005-d">d</a></p> <h1 class="bksect">II. <span class="ac">Loyalty to the Gospel</span><a id="rfn55001006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001006-1">*</a></h1> <p class="paft"><span id="v55001006" class="ver">6</span><a id="ren55001006-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001006-e">e</a> I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you<a id="rfn55001006-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001006-2">*</a> by [the] grace [of Christ] for a different gospel <span id="v55001007" class="ver">7</span>(not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. <span id="v55001008" class="ver">8</span><a id="ren55001008-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001008-f">f</a> But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach [to you] a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed!<a id="rfn55001008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001008-1">*</a> <span id="v55001009" class="ver">9</span>As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed!</p> <p><span id="v55001010" class="ver">10</span><a id="ren55001010-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001010-g">g</a> Am I now currying favor with human beings or God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.<a id="rfn55001010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001010-1">*</a></p> <h1 class="bksect">III. <span class="ac">Paul’s Defense of His Gospel and His Authority</span><a id="rfn55001011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001011-1">*</a></h1> <p class="paft"><span class="hemb">His Call by Christ.</span> <span id="v55001011" class="ver">11</span><a id="ren55001011-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001011-h">h</a> Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin. <span id="v55001012" class="ver">12</span>For I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ.<a id="rfn55001012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001012-1">*</a></p> <p><span id="v55001013" class="ver">13</span><a id="rfn55001013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001013-1">*</a> For you heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it,<a id="ren55001013-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001013-i">i</a> <span id="v55001014" class="ver">14</span>and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions.<a id="ren55001014-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001014-j">j</a> <span id="v55001015" class="ver">15</span>But when [God], who from my mother’s womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased<a id="ren55001015-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001015-k">k</a> <span id="v55001016" class="ver">16</span>to reveal his Son to me,<a id="ren55001016-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001016-l">l</a> so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood,<a id="rfn55001016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001016-1">*</a> <span id="v55001017" class="ver">17</span>nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; rather, I went into Arabia<a id="rfn55001017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001017-1">*</a> and then returned to Damascus.</p> <p><span id="v55001018" class="ver">18</span><a id="rfn55001018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001018-1">*</a> Then after three years<a id="rfn55001018-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001018-2">*</a> I went up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas and remained with him for fifteen days.<a id="ren55001018-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001018-m">m</a> <span id="v55001019" class="ver">19</span>But I did not see any other of the apostles,<a id="ren55001019-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001019-n">n</a> only James the brother of the Lord.<a id="rfn55001019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn55001019-1">*</a> <span id="v55001020" class="ver">20</span>(As to what I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.)<a id="ren55001020-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001020-o">o</a> <span id="v55001021" class="ver">21</span>Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.<a id="ren55001021-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001021-p">p</a> <span id="v55001022" class="ver">22</span>And I was unknown personally to the churches of Judea that are in Christ; <span id="v55001023" class="ver">23</span>they only kept hearing that “the one who once was persecuting us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”<a id="ren55001023-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en55001023-q">q</a> <span id="v55001024" class="ver">24</span>So they glorified God because of me.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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