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Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead),
Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead),
Greetings from Paul
This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.
This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.
and all the brethren who are with me,
To the churches of Galatia:
To the churches of Galatia:
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live.
Only One Gospel
I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,
I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,
but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.
Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you.
As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
I say again what we have said before: If anyone preaches any other Good News than the one you welcomed, let that person be cursed.
For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.
Call to Apostleship
But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.
But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.
Paul’s Message Comes from Christ
Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning.
For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.
You know what I was like when I followed the Jewish religion — how I violently persecuted God’s church. I did my best to destroy it.
And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace,
But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him
to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to consult with those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went away into Arabia, and later I returned to the city of Damascus.
But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.
The only other apostle I met at that time was James, the Lord’s brother.
(Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.)
I declare before God that what I am writing to you is not a lie.
Afterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
After that visit I went north into the provinces of Syria and Cilicia.
And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ.
And still the churches in Christ that are in Judea didn’t know me personally.
But they were hearing only, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy.”
All they knew was that people were saying, “The one who used to persecute us is now preaching the very faith he tried to destroy!”