Galatians 1:11-18

International Children’s Bible

Paul’s Authority Is from God

¹¹ Brothers, I want you to know that the Good News I preached to you was not made by men. ¹² I did not get it from men, nor did any man teach it to me. Jesus Christ showed it to me.

¹³ You have heard about my past life. I belonged to the Jewish religion. I hurt the church of God very much and tried to destroy it. ¹⁴ I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion. I did better than most other Jews of my age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the old rules. These rules were the customs handed down by our ancestors.

¹⁵ But God had special plans for me even before I was born. So he called me through his grace that I might ¹⁶ tell the Good News about his Son to the non-Jewish people. So God showed me about his Son. When God called me, I did not get advice or help from any man. ¹⁷ I did not go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was. But, without waiting, I went away to Arabia and later went back to Damascus.

¹⁸ After three years I went to Jerusalem to meet Peter and stayed with him for 15 days.