1:6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
1:7 not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, a curse be on him!
1:9 As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!
1:10 For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
1:11 For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin.
1:12 For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:13 For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I intensely persecuted God’s church and tried to destroy it.
1:14 I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
1:15 But when God, who from my mother’s womb set me apart and called me by his grace, was pleased
1:16 to reveal his Son in me, so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.
1:17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.
1:18 Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.
1:19 But I didn’t see any of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.
1:20 I declare in the sight of God: I am not lying in what I write to you.
1:21 Afterward, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
1:22 I remained personally unknown to the Judean churches that are in Christ.
1:23 They simply kept hearing, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”
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