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11 ) But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
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12 ) For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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13 ) For all of you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
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14 ) And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
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15 ) But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
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16 ) To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
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17 ) Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.