| 1 | Galatians | ||
| 1 | FROM PAUL, AN APOSTLE, not by human appointment or human commission, but by commission from Jesus Christ and from God the Father who raised him from the dead. | Salutation Ga.1.1-5 | |
| 2 | I and the group of friends now with me send greetings to the Christian congregations of Galatia. | ||
| 3 | Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, | Ga.1.3-4 | |
| 4 | who sacrificed himself for our sins, to rescue us out of this present age of wickedness, as our God and Father willed: | ||
| 5 | to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. | ||
| 6 | I am astonished to find you turning so quickly away from him who called you by grace, and following a different gospel. | There is No Other Gospel Ga.1.6-10 | |
| 7 | Not that it is in fact another gospel, only there are persons who unsettle your minds by trying to distort the gospel of Christ. | ||
| 8 | But if anyone, if we ourselves or an angel from heaven, should preach a gospel at variance with the gospel we preached to you, he shall be held outcast. | ||
| 9 | I now repeat what I have said before: if anyone preaches a gospel at variance with the gospel which you received, let him be outcast! | ||
| 10 | Does my language now sound as if I were canvassing for men's support? Whose support do I want but God's alone? Do you think I am currying favour with men? If I still sought men's favour, I should be no servant of Christ. | ||
| 11 | I must make it clear to you, my friends, that the gospel you heard me preach is no human invention. | How Paul Became an Apostle Ga.1.11-24 | |
| 12 | I did not take it over from any man; no man taught it me; I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. | ||
| 13 | You have heard what my manner of life was when I was still a practising Jew: how savagely I persecuted the church of God, and tried to destroy it; | ||
| 14 | and how in the practice of our national religion I was outstripping many of my Jewish contemporaries in my boundless devotion to the traditions of my ancestors. | ||
| 15 | But then in his good pleasure God, who had set me apart from birth and called me through his grace, chose | ||
| 16 | to reveal his Son to me and through me, in order that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles. When that happened, without consulting any human being, | ||
| 17 | without going up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and afterwards returned to Damascus. | ||
| 18 | Three years later I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas. I stayed with him for a fortnight, | ||
| 19 | without seeing any other of the apostles, except James the Lord's brother. | ||
| 20 | What I write is plain truth; before God I am not lying. | ||
| 21 | Next I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia, | ||
| 22 | and remained unknown by sight to Christ's congregations in Judaea. | ||
| 23 | They only heard it said, 'Our former persecutor is preaching the good news of the faith which once he tried to destroy'; | ||
| 24 | and they praised God for me. | ||
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