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But let it be so, I did not burden you; but being crafty, I took you with bait.

Again, do you think we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but in all things for your building up, beloved.

since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is powerful in you,

But I pray to God for you not to do evil, none; not that we may appear to be approved, but that you may do the good, and we may be disapproved.

For we cannot have any power against the truth, but on behalf of the truth.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are powerful. But we pray for this also, your perfection.

Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the One raising Him from the dead,

But even if we, or an angel out of Heaven, should preach a gospel to you beside the gospel we preached to you, let him be accursed.

For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it , but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when God was pleased, He having separated me from my mother's belly, and having called me through His grace, Isa. 49:1

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

But I saw no other of the apostles except James the brother of the Lord.

but I was not known by face to the assemblies of Judea in Christ.

But only they were hearing that he who was persecuting us then, now preaches the gospel, the faith which he then ravaged;

And I went up according to revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to the ones seeming to be pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.

But not even Titus, the one with me, a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

But it was because of those false brothers stealing in, who stole in to spy on our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, they desiring to enslave us,

But from those seeming to be something (of what kind they were then does not matter to me; God does not accept the face of man), for those seeming to be important conferred nothing to me;

but on the contrary, seeing that I have been entrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter to the circumcision,

and knowing the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John, those seeming to be pillars, gave right hands of fellowship to Barnabas and to me, that we go to the nations, but they to the circumcision;