| Galations 1 | ||
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| Paul, an apostle (not {sent} from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead), | |
| and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: | |
| Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, | |
| who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, | |
| to whom {be} the glory forevermore. Amen. | |
| I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; | |
| which is {really} not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. | |
| But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! | |
| As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed! | |
| For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. | |
| For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. | |
| For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but {I received it} through a revelation of Jesus Christ. | |
| For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it; | |
| and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions. | |
| But when God, who had set me apart {even} from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased | |
| to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, | |
| nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus. | |
| Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days. | |
| But I did not see any other of the apostles except James, the Lord's brother. | |
| (Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.) | |
| Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. | |
| I was {still} unknown by sight to the churches of Judea which were in Christ; | |
| but only, they kept hearing, "He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy." | |
| And they were glorifying God because of me. |
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