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1:1  Paul, an apostle—commissioned not by human authority or by any human being, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead—
1:2  and all the brethren who are with me, to the Churches of Galatia.
1:3  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
1:4  who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,
1:5  to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
1:6  I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel.
1:7  In reality, there is not another one, but there are some who are troubling you by perverting the gospel of Christ.
1:8  But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel to you other than the one we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!
1:9  We have said this before, and now I repeat it: if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one you received, let him be accursed!
1:10  Does it now appear to you that I am trying to gain the approval of human beings rather than the approval of God? Am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
1:11  Brethren, I want you to be assured that the gospel I preached to you is not human in its origin.
1:12  I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it. Rather, I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:13  Undoubtedly you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, how I fiercely persecuted the Church of God and tried to destroy it.
1:14  I progressed in Judaism far beyond many of my contemporaries, inasmuch as I was much more zealous in upholding the traditions of my ancestors.
1:15  However, when God, who had set me apart even before my birth, called me through his grace and chose
1:16  to reveal his Son to me so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood,
1:17  nor did I go up to Jerusalem to consult with those who were apostles before me. Rather, I went off to Arabia, and afterward I returned to Damascus.
1:18  Then after three years, I did go up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him for fifteen days.
1:19  However, I did not set eyes on any of the other apostles, except for James, the brother of the Lord.
1:20  I declare before God that I am not lying in anything I have written.
1:21  Afterward, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
1:22  I was still unknown by sight to the Churches of Judea that are in Christ.
1:23  They had only heard it said, “The one who was formerly persecuting us is now preaching the faith that he had once tried to destroy.”
1:24  As a result, they gave glory to God because of me.