To the Galatians, 1

¹ Paul, an apostle, neither from men nor through a man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him up from the dead,

² and all the brothers with me, to the congregations of Ga·laʹti·a:

³ May you have undeserved kindness and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ He gave himself for our sins so that he might rescue us from the present wicked system of things^*1 according to the will of our God and Father,

⁵ to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁶ I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away^*1 from the One who called you with Christ’s undeserved kindness to another sort of good news.

⁷ Not that there is another good news; but there are certain ones who are causing you trouble and wanting to distort the good news about the Christ.

⁸ However, even if we or an angel out of heaven were to declare to you as good news something beyond the good news we declared to you, let him be accursed.

⁹ As we have said before, I now say again, Whoever is declaring to you as good news something beyond what you accepted, let him be accursed.

¹⁰ Is it, in fact, men I am now trying to persuade or God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be Christ’s slave.

¹¹ For I want you to know, brothers, that the good news I declared to you is not of human origin;

¹² for neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it was through a revelation by Jesus Christ.

¹³ Of course, you heard about my conduct formerly in Juʹda·ism, that I kept intensely^*1 persecuting the congregation of God and devastating it;

¹⁴ and I was making greater progress in Juʹda·ism than many of my own age in my nation, as I was far more zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵ But when God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his undeserved kindness, thought good

¹⁶ to reveal his Son through me so that I might declare the good news about him to the nations, I did not immediately consult with any human;^*1

¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before I was, but I went to Arabia, and then I returned to Damascus.

¹⁸ Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to visit Ceʹphas,^*1 and I stayed with him for 15 days.

¹⁹ But I did not see any of the other apostles, only James the brother of the Lord.

²⁰ Now regarding the things I am writing you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.

²¹ After that I went into the regions of Syria and Ci·liʹcia.

²² But I was personally unknown to the congregations of Ju·deʹa that were in union with Christ.

²³ They only used to hear: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now declaring the good news about the faith that he formerly devastated.”

²⁴ So they began glorifying God because of me.