For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

to reveal his Son to me, that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, how can you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.