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Galatians 1

¹Paul, an apostle — sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead —

²and all the brothers and sisters [1] with me, To the churches in Galatia:

³Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

⁵to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

⁶I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel —

⁷which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.

⁸But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!

⁹As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

¹⁰Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

¹¹I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

¹²I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

¹³For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.

¹⁴I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased

¹⁶to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being.

¹⁷I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.

¹⁸Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas [2] and stayed with him fifteen days.

¹⁹I saw none of the other apostles — only James, the Lord’s brother.

²⁰I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie.

²¹Then I went to Syria and Cilicia.

²²I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

²³They only heard the report: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”

²⁴And they praised God because of me.