Galatians 1
13 Ref For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:
14 Ref And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.
15 Ref But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,
16 Ref To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,
17 Ref And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.
18 Ref Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.
19 Ref But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother.
20 Ref Now God is witness that the things which I am writing to you are true.
21 Ref Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia.
22 Ref And the churches of Judaea which were in Christ still had no knowledge of my face or person:
23 Ref Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;
