The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
GAL 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was
preached of me is not after man.
GAL 1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but
by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
GAL 1:13 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:
GAL 1:14 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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