gion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God and
wasted it.
1:14. And I made progress in the Jew's religion above many of my equals
in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my
fathers.
1:15. But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and
called me by his grace,
1:16. To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the
Gentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood.
1:17. Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles who were before me:
but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus.
1:18. Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Peter: and I
tarried with him fifteen days.
1:19. But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of
the Lord.
1:20. Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie
not.
1:21. Afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
1:22. And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in
Christ:
1:23. But they had heard only: He, who persecuted us in times past doth
now preach the faith which once he impugned.
1:24. And they glorified God in me.
Galatians Chapter 2
The apostle's preaching was approved of by the other apostles. The
Gentiles were not to be constrained to the observance of the law.
2:1. Then, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with
Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
2:2. And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the
gospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed
to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain.
2:3. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Gentile, was compelled
to be circumcised.
2:4. But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in
privately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they
might bring us into servitude.
2:5. To whom we yielded not by subjection: no, not for an hour: that the
truth of the gospel might continue with you.
2:6. But of them who seemed to be some thing, (what they were some time
it is nothing to me, God accepteth not the person of man): for to me
they that seemed to be some thing added nothing.
2:7. But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the
gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision.
The gospel of the uncircumcision... The preaching of the gospel to the
uncircumcised, that is, to t
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