For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source;<n id="1" /> instead I received it<n id="2" /> by a revelation of Jesus Christ.<n id="3" />p>

Yet<n id="1" /> not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave<n id="1" /> nor free, there is neither male nor female<n id="2" /> &#8211; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

nor did I go up to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia,<n id="2" /> and then returned to Damascus.p>

But<n id="1" /> we did not surrender to them<n id="2" /> even for a moment,<n id="3" /> in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">From Paul,<n id="1" /> an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)

and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me.<n id="1" /> Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God,<n id="2" /> as though I were Christ Jesus himself!<n id="3" />

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.<n id="1" />