10. Do you think I am trying to make people accept me? No, God is the One I am trying to please. Am I trying to please people? If I still wanted to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
11. Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the Good News I preached to you was not made up by human beings.
12. I did not get it from humans, nor did anyone teach it to me, but Jesus Christ showed it to me.
13. You have heard about my past life in the Jewish religion. I attacked the church of God and tried to destroy it.
14. I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion, doing better than most other Jews of my age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the teachings handed down by our ancestors.