NET Bible
"But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased"
— Galatians 1:15, NET Bible
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,”
“But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace, ”
“But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,”
“But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace,”
“But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,”
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,”
For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.
For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.
I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased
to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.