Galatians 1: 13 - 24
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For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;
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| 14
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and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.
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| 15
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But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace,
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| 16
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was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood,
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| 17
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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned to Damascus.
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| 18
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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and remained with him fifteen days.
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| 19
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But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.
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(In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)
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| 21
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Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cili'cia.
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And I was still not known by sight to the churches of Christ in Judea;
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they only heard it said, "He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
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And they glorified God because of me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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