But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Galatians 1:15 in context
Galatians 1:12–18
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For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.
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For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
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I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
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But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,
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to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.
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