Galatians 1
1 This letter comes from Paul, an apostle not appointed by any human organization or human authority. Quite the contrary: I was appointed by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Jesus from the dead.
Paul an apostle (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),
2 All the brothers and sisters here with me join in sending this letter to the churches in Galatia.
and all the brethren that are with me, to the churches of Galatia:
3 May the grace and peace of God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!
grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 Jesus gave himself for our sins to set us free from this current world of evil, following the will of our God and Father. (aiōn g165)
who gave himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father: (aiōn g165)
to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 I'm shocked at how quickly you're abandoning the God who by the grace of Christ called you. You are turning to a different kind of good news
I wonder that ye are so soon removed from him who called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel: which is not another;
7 that isn't good news at all! Some people there are confusing you, wanting to pervert the good news of Christ.
but there be some that disturb you, and would subvert the gospel of Christ.
8 But if anyone, even we ourselves, or even an angel from heaven, should promote any other kind of good news than what we have already told you, let them be condemned!
But tho' we or an angel from heaven should preach to you any other gospel than what we have preached to you; let him be accursed.
9 I repeat what we've told you before: if anyone promotes any other kind of good news than what you've already accepted, let them be condemned!
I say it again, if any one preach to you any other gospel than what ye have received, let him be accursed.
10 Whose approval do you think I want—that of people, or of God? Do you think I'm trying to please people? If I wanted to please people I wouldn't be a servant of Christ!
For do I now persuade you to obey men or God? Or do I seek to please men? if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 Let me make it clear, my friends, regarding the good news I'm declaring—it did not come from any human being.
But I assure you, brethren, that the gospel preached by me is not of human invention.
12 I didn't receive it from anyone, and nobody taught it to me—it was Jesus Christ who revealed it to me.
For I neither received it, nor was taught it by man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 You heard how I behaved as a follower of the Jewish religion—how I fanatically persecuted God's church, savagely trying to destroy it.
For ye have heard of my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I outragiously persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste:
14 I surpassed my contemporaries in the practice of the Jewish religion because I was so fervently devoted to the traditions of my ancestors.
and I made a proficiency in Judaism above many of the same age with me in my own nation, being excessively zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when God (who had set me apart from birth) called me through his grace, and was pleased
But when it pleased God, (who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, )
16 to reveal his Son to me so that I could announce the good news to the nations, I didn't discuss this with anyone.
to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach Him among the gentiles; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,
17 I didn't go to Jerusalem to talk to those who preceded me as apostles; instead I left for Arabia, and then later returned to Damascus.
nor went I up to Jerusalem to those that were apostles before me, but I departed into Arabia, and afterwards returned again to Damascus.
18 After three years I went to Jerusalem to visit Peter. I stayed with him for two weeks.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and I staid with him fifteen days.
19 I didn't see any other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.
But I saw no other of the apostles, except James the brother of our Lord.
20 (Let me assure you before God that I'm not lying about what I'm writing to you!)
(Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.)
21 Then I went to Syria and Cilicia.
Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,
22 Even so, my face wasn't known to those in the churches of Judea.
and was not known in person to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ.
23 They had only heard people say, “The man who used to persecute us is now spreading the faith he once tried to destroy!”
But only they had heard that he who persecuted us before, now preacheth the faith which he formerly would have destroyed.
24 —and they praised God because of me.
And they glorified God on my account.
