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Galatians 1

¹From Paul, whose call to be an apostle did not come from human beings or by human means, but from Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from death.

²All the believers who are here join me in sending greetings to the churches of Galatia:

³May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

⁴In order to set us free from this present evil age, Christ gave himself for our sins, in obedience to the will of our God and Father.

⁵To God be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

⁶I am surprised at you! In no time at all you are deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ, and are accepting another gospel.

⁷Actually, there is no "other gospel,"but I say this because there are some people who are upsetting you and trying to change the gospel of Christ.

⁸But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel that is different from the one we preached to you, may he be condemned to hell!

⁹We have said it before, and now I say it again: if anyone preaches to you a gospel that is different from the one you accepted, may he be condemned to hell!

¹⁰Does this sound as if I am trying to win human approval? No indeed! What I want is God's approval! Am I trying to be popular with people? If I were still trying to do so, I would not be a servant of Christ.

¹¹Let me tell you, my friends, that the gospel I preach is not of human origin.

¹²I did not receive it from any human being, nor did anyone teach it to me. It was Jesus Christ himself who revealed it to me.

¹³You have been told how I used to live when I was devoted to the Jewish religion, how I persecuted without mercy the church of God and did my best to destroy it.

¹⁴I was ahead of most other Jews of my age in my practice of the Jewish religion, and was much more devoted to the traditions of our ancestors.

¹⁵But God in his grace chose me even before I was born, and called me to serve him. And when he decided

¹⁶to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the Good News about him to the Gentiles, I did not go to anyone for advice,

¹⁷nor did I go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me. Instead, I went at once to Arabia, and then I returned to Damascus.

¹⁸It was three years later that I went to Jerusalem to obtain information from Peter, and I stayed with him for two weeks.

¹⁹I did not see any other apostle except James, the Lord's brother.

²⁰What I write is true. God knows that I am not lying!

²¹Afterward I went to places in Syria and Cilicia.

²²At that time the members of the churches in Judea did not know me personally.

²³They knew only what others were saying: "The man who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith that he once tried to destroy!"

²⁴And so they praised God because of me.