PAUL, an apostle, (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,)

for neither did I receive it from man, nor was it taught me, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter, before them all: If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not after the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the Gen tiles to observe Jewish customs?

This only I wish to learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

and my trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or loathe; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

They are ardently attached to you, but not honorably; in deed, they desire to exclude us, that you may be ardently attached to them.