Galatians 1:11-24

21st Century King James Version

¹¹ But I certify to you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached by me is not according to man;

¹² for I neither received it from man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹³ For ye have heard of my participation in times past in the Jews’ religion, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and wasted it.

¹⁴ I profited in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵ But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace,

¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen, I conferred not immediately with flesh and blood,

¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus.

¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

¹⁹ But I saw none of the other apostles save James, the Lord’s brother.

²⁰ (Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.)

²¹ Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,

²² and was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ;

²³ but they had heard only that, “He who persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.”

²⁴ And they glorified God in me.