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1:1  Paul, an emissary commissioned directly by Jesus the Anointed One and God the Father (who raised Him from the dead)—not (as some claim) an agent of men or any person—
1:2  and all the brothers and sisters with me to you, the churches of Galatia.
1:3  May the grace and peace of God the Father and the Lord Jesus the Anointed live in you;
1:4  He is the very Savior who rescues us from this present, perverse age dominated by evil by giving His life according to our Father’s will to deal with our sins.
1:5  May God’s glorious name forever receive honor. Amen.
1:6  Frankly I am stunned. I cannot believe that you have abandoned God so quickly—even after He called you through the grace of the Anointed One—and have fallen for a different gospel.
1:7  Actually there is only one true gospel of the Anointed, and you—because of divisive prodding by others—are accepting a distorted version which is not the gospel at all!
1:8  No matter the source of the false gospel, even if it is preached by us or a heavenly messenger, ignore it. May those who add to or subtract from the gospel of Jesus be eternally cursed!
1:9  Listen again: if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than what you have accepted, may he find himself cursed!
1:10  Do you think I care about the approval of men or about the approval of God? Do you think I am on a mission to please people? If I am still spinning my wheels trying to please men, then there is no way I can be a servant of the Anointed One, the Liberating King.
1:11  Know this, dear brothers and sisters: the good news I brought to you isn’t the latest in fiction or the product of some creative mind.
1:12  It is not a legend I learned or one that has been passed down from person to person, ear to ear. I was gifted with this message as Jesus the Anointed revealed Himself miraculously to me.
1:13  Surely you are familiar with my personal history, with my dedication to the teachings and traditions of Judaism. I persecuted the church of God—in fact, I meant to destroy it.
1:14  I excelled in the teachings of Judaism far above other Jewish leaders, and I was zealous to practice the ways of our ancestors.
1:15  But God—who set me apart even before birth and called me by His grace—chose, to His great delight,
1:16  to reveal His Son in me so I could tell His story among the outsider nations. I didn’t confer with anyone right away,
1:17  nor did I go to those who were already emissaries in Jerusalem. I went straight to Arabia and later returned to Damascus.
1:18  After living this adventurous mission for three years, I made my way to Jerusalem and spent 15 days with Cephas, whom you know as Peter.
1:19  But I didn’t see any emissary other than James, our Lord’s brother.
1:20  (You can be certain that what I am offering you is an authentic account. Before God, it’s the whole truth—I wouldn’t lie.)
1:21  Later I journeyed to Syria and Cilicia;
1:22  and since I had spent so little time in Judea among the churches of the Anointed One, no one there could pick me out of a crowd.
1:23  But stories of my call and mission preceded me: “The very man who wanted to kill us all is now preaching the faith he once labored to destroy.”
1:24  And so they praised God for the miracle He did in my life.