9 As we said before, so do I say now again, If anyone preaches any other gospel unto you than what ye have received, let him be anathema.
10 For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ.
11 But I make known unto you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not according to man.
12 For I did not receive it nor learn it from man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in Judaism, how that beyond measure I was persecuting and destroying the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God
14 And profited in Judaism above many of my equals in my own nation, being exceedingly more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace,