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1:1  Paul, an apostle not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and by God the Father who raised him from death,
1:2  and all the brethren who are with me. To the congregations of Galatia.
1:3  Grace be with you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:4  who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God our Father,
1:5  to whom be praise for ever and ever. Amen.
1:6  I marvel that you are so soon turned away from him who called you in the grace of Christ, to another gospel –
1:7  which is nothing other than that there are some who trouble you and intend to pervert the gospel of Christ.
1:8  Nevertheless, even if we ourselves or an angel from heaven preach any gospel to you other than that which we have preached to you, hold him as accursed.
1:9  As I said before, so I say now again: if anyone preaches any other thing to you than that which you have received, hold him as accursed.
1:10  Do I preach man’s doctrine, or God’s? Or do I go about to please men? If I sought to please men, I would not be the servant of Christ.
1:11  I tell you, brethren, that the gospel I preached was not after the manner of men. I neither received it from man,
1:12  nor was I taught it, but I received it by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:13  For you have heard of my conduct in time past, in the ways of the Jews – how beyond measure I persecuted the congregation of God, and ravaged it,
1:14  and prevailed in the law of the Jews above many of my companions who were of my own nation, and was a much more fervent maintainer of the precepts of the elders.
1:15  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace,
1:16  in order to declare his Son by me, to preach him among the heathen, I did not immediately commune of the matter with flesh and blood,
1:17  nor return to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but went my ways into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
1:18  Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.
1:19  I did not see any of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.
1:20  The things that I write, lo, God knows I do not speak untruly.
1:21  After that, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
1:22  I was not personally known to the congregations of Judea that were in Christ,
1:23  but they only heard that he who persecuted them in time past, now preaches the faith that before he destroyed.
1:24  And they glorified God in my behalf.