9. I’m repeating what we’ve said before: if anyone preaches something different from what you received, they should be under a curse!
10. Am I trying to win over human beings or God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I wouldn’t be Christ’s slave.
11. Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the gospel I preached isn’t human in origin.
12. I didn’t receive it or learn it from a human. It came through a revelation from Jesus Christ.
13. You heard about my previous life in Judaism, how severely I harassed God’s church and tried to destroy it.
14. I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my peers, because I was much more militant about the traditions of my ancestors.
15. But God had set me apart from birth and called me through his grace. He was pleased