15But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased
15But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased
12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased
16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man,
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.
1:15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called [me] by his grace,
1:15But when it pleased him, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
1:15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,
1:15But when God, who set me apart even from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
1:15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,
1:15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
1:15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,
1:15and when God was well pleased — having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace —
1:15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,