15 And when God, who had chosen me from my mother's womb, and had called me by his grace, was well pleased,

16 To reveal my Son in me, that I might preach his gospel to the Gentiles, I did not then consult with flesh and blood,

17 And he did not go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who had gone before me, but went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

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

19 And I saw no other of the apostles except James the brother of the Lord.

20 But in what I write to you, before God, I do not lie.

21 After these things I departed to the countries of Syria and Cilicia.

22 To the churches of Christ in Judea I was not known personally,

23 but they only heard that he who persecuted them was now preaching the gospel of the faith, which he had formerly destroyed, 24 and they glorified God for me.

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1 And after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

2 And I went about the revelation, and there I set before the most illustrious, the gospel which I preached to the Gentiles, whether I did not strive in vain, or whether I had struggled.

3 But they did not compel Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, to be circumcised,

4 but to the false brethren who crept in, who came secretly to spy on our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, to enslave us,

5 We have not yielded or submitted for an hour, that the truth of the gospel may be preserved among you.

E-6 And there's nothing special to me about those who are famous for anything, whatever they ever are: God doesn't look at the face of man. And the illustrious have laid nothing more on me.

7 On the contrary, when he saw that the gospel was entrusted to me for the uncircumcised, as to Peter for the circumcision,

8 [for he who cooperated with Peter in the apostleship among the circumcision, helped me also among the Gentiles],