10. For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Messiah.
11. But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.
12. For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Yeshua the Messiah.
13. For you have heard of my way of living in time past in Judaism, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.
14. I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15. But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
16. to reveal his Son in me, that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,