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1:1  From Paul, an apostle. I was not chosen to be an apostle by human beings, nor was I sent from human beings. I was made an apostle through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Jesus from the dead.
1:2  This letter is also from all those of God’s family who are with me. To the churches in Galatia:
1:3  Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4  Jesus gave himself for our sins to free us from this evil world we live in, as God the Father planned.
1:5  The glory belongs to God forever and ever. Amen.
1:6  God, by his grace through Christ, called you to become his people. So I am amazed that you are turning away so quickly and believing something different than the Good News.
1:7  Really, there is no other Good News. But some people are confusing you; they want to change the Good News of Christ.
1:8  We preached to you the Good News. So if we ourselves, or even an angel from heaven, should preach to you something different, we should be judged guilty!
1:9  I said this before, and now I say it again: You have already accepted the Good News. If anyone is preaching something different to you, let that person be judged guilty!
1:10  Do you think I am trying to make people accept me? No, God is the One I am trying to please. Am I trying to please people? If I still wanted to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
1:11  Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the Good News I preached to you was not made up by human beings.
1:12  I did not get it from humans, nor did anyone teach it to me, but Jesus Christ showed it to me.
1:13  You have heard about my past life in the Jewish religion. I attacked the church of God and tried to destroy it.
1:14  I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion, doing better than most other Jews of my age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the teachings handed down by our ancestors.
1:15  But God had special plans for me and set me apart for his work even before I was born. He called me through his grace
1:16  and showed his son to me so that I might tell the Good News about him to those who are not Jewish. When God called me, I did not get advice or help from any person.
1:17  I did not go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was. But, without waiting, I went away to Arabia and later went back to Damascus.
1:18  After three years I went to Jerusalem to meet Peter and stayed with him for fifteen days.
1:19  I met no other apostles, except James, the brother of the Lord.
1:20  God knows that these things I write are not lies.
1:21  Later, I went to the areas of Syria and Cilicia.
1:22  In Judea the churches in Christ had never met me.
1:23  They had only heard it said, “This man who was attacking us is now preaching the same faith that he once tried to destroy.”
1:24  And these believers praised God because of me.