1:1 Paul, apostle (not from men neither through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead)
1:2 and all the brethren who are with me, unto the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of Galatia:
1:3 Grace be unto you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:4 who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
1:5 unto whom be the glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.
1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel,
1:7 for there is not another; but there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of the Christ.
1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be anathema.
1:9 As we said before, so do I say now again, If anyone preaches any other gospel unto you than what ye have received, let him be anathema.
1:10 For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ.
1:11 But I make known unto you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not according to man.
1:12 For I did not receive it nor learn it from man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in Judaism, how that beyond measure I was persecuting and destroying the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God
1:14 And profited in Judaism above many of my equals in my own nation, being exceedingly more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace,
1:16 to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood,
1:17 neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus.
1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days.
1:19 But I saw none of the other apostles, except James the Lord’s brother.
1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I do not lie.
1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia
1:22 and was unknown by face unto the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of Judaea which were in Christ,
1:23 but they had only heard, That he who persecuted us in time past now preaches the faith which he once destroyed.
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