Galatians 1:16
To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15But when it pleased him, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:9Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,
Matthew 26:41Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh weak.
Luke 9:59But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go, and to bury my father.
Acts 22:21And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off, will I send thee.
Romans 1:13And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you, (and have been hindered hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Romans 15:16That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles; sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 1:11-24
The Apostle's Integrity. ( a. d. 56.) 10 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. 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 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: 14 And… Read the whole commentary →