10. Does this sound as if I am trying to win human approval? No indeed! What I want is God's approval! Am I trying to be popular with people? If I were still trying to do so, I would not be a servant of Christ.
11. Let me tell you, my brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preach is not of human origin.
12. I did not receive it from any human being, nor did anyone teach it to me. It was Jesus Christ himself who revealed it to me.
13. You have been told how I used to live when I was devoted to the Jewish religion, how I persecuted without mercy the church of God and did my best to destroy it.
14. I was ahead of most fellow-Jews of my age in my practice of the Jewish religion, and was much more devoted to the traditions of our ancestors.