1:1 From: Sha’ul, an emissary — I received my commission not from human beings or through human mediation but through Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — also from all the brothers with me
1:6 I am astounded that you are so quick to remove yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah’s grace, and turn to some other supposedly “Good News,”
1:7 which is not good news at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good News of the Messiah.
1:8 But even if we — or, for that matter, an angel from heaven! — were to announce to you some so-called “Good News” contrary to the Good News we did announce to you, let him be under a curse forever!
1:9 We said it before, and I say it again: if anyone announces “Good News” contrary to what you received, let him be under a curse forever!
1:10 Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God’s approval! Or that I’m trying to cater to people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.
1:11 Furthermore, let me make clear to you, brothers, that the Good News as I proclaim it is not a human product;
1:12 because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it — it came through a direct revelation from Yeshua the Messiah.
1:13 For you have heard about my former way of life in [traditional] Judaism — how I did my best to persecute God’s Messianic Community and destroy it;
1:14 and how, since I was more of a zealot for the traditions handed down by my forefathers than most Jews my age, I advanced in [traditional] Judaism more rapidly than they did.
1:15 But when God, who picked me out before I was born and called me by his grace, chose
1:16 to reveal his Son to me, so that I might announce him to the Gentiles, I did not consult anyone;
1:17 and I did not go up to Yerushalayim to see those who were emissaries before me. Instead, I immediately went off to Arabia and afterwards returned to Dammesek.
1:18 Not until three years later did I go up to Yerushalayim to make Kefa’s acquaintance, and I stayed with him for two weeks,
1:19 but I did not see any of the other emissaries except Ya‘akov the Lord’s brother.
1:20 (Concerning these matters I am writing you about, I declare before God that I am not lying!)
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