13 For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it, 14 and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, because[a] I was a far more zealous adherent of the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

15 But when the one who set me apart[b] from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace was pleased

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 1:14 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was”) which is understood as causal
  2. Galatians 1:15 Some manuscripts have “when God who set me apart”