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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 1, Verse 10

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For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
King James Version
But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
American Standard Version
For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.
New English Translation
Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.
World English Bible
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
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For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
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And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
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But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace,
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To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
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Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
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But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
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Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
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Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;