PAUL the apostle (not _sent_ from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ,
and our Father who raised him from the dead), (2)and all the brethren
with me, to the churches of Galatia: (3)grace unto you, and peace from
God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ; (4)who gave himself for our
sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world,
according to the will of God and our Father: (5)to whom be glory for
ever and ever. Amen.
(6)I marvel that ye are so quickly departed from him that called you,
by the grace of Christ into another gospel (7)which is not another; but
there are certain persons who trouble you, and desire to pervert the
gospel of Christ. (8)But though even we, or an angel from heaven,
preach unto you another gospel, different from that which we have
preached to you, let him be an anathema. (9)As we have before spoken,
and I now repeat it again, If any man preach a gospel different from
that ye have received, let him be anathema. (10)For do I now use
persuasions from men, or from God? or do I seek to please men? for if I
yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
(11)But I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was
preached by me is not a merely human ministry. (12)For I neither
received it from man, nor was taught, but by immediate revelation from
Jesus Christ. (13)For ye have heard of my former manner of life, when I
professed Judaism, that in the most outrageous manner I persecuted the
church of God, and wasted it: (14)and signalized myself in Judaism
above many of those of my own age among my countrymen, being more
exceedingly a zealot for the traditions of my fathers. (15)But when it
pleased God, who selected me from my mother's womb, and called me by
his grace, (16)to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach the glad
tidings of him to the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh
and blood, (17)nor went up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles
before me; but I went away into Arabia, and returned again unto
Damascus. (18)Afterwards at the expiration of three years I went up
unto Jerusalem to pay a visit to Peter, and I abode with him fifteen
days. (19)But I saw no other of the apostles except James, the Lord's
brother. (20)Now respecting the things which I write unto you, behold,
in the presence of God, I lie not. (21)Afterwards I went into the
regions of Syria and Cilicia; (22)and I was personally unknown to the
churches of Judea, which are in Christ: (23)only they had heard, that
he who persecuted us in time past, now preaches the faith which he once
laid waste. (24)And they glorified God on my behalf.