GALATIANS 1:1 PAUL, AN APOSTLE--SENT NOT FROM MEN NOR BY A MAN, BUT BY JESUS CHRIST AND GOD THE FATHER, WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD--
GALATIANS 1:2 AND ALL THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS WITH ME, TO THE CHURCHES IN GALATIA:
GALATIANS 1:3 GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,
GALATIANS 1:4 WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR OUR SINS TO RESCUE US FROM THE PRESENT EVIL AGE, ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF OUR GOD AND FATHER,
GALATIANS 1:5 TO WHOM BE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.
GALATIANS 1:6 I AM ASTONISHED THAT YOU ARE SO QUICKLY DESERTING THE ONE WHO CALLED YOU TO LIVE IN THE GRACE OF CHRIST AND ARE TURNING TO A DIFFERENT GOSPEL--
GALATIANS 1:7 WHICH IS REALLY NO GOSPEL AT ALL. EVIDENTLY SOME PEOPLE ARE THROWING YOU INTO CONFUSION AND ARE TRYING TO PERVERT THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
GALATIANS 1:8 BUT EVEN IF WE OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN SHOULD PREACH A GOSPEL OTHER THAN THE ONE WE PREACHED TO YOU, LET THEM BE UNDER GOD'S CURSE!
GALATIANS 1:9 AS WE HAVE ALREADY SAID, SO NOW I SAY AGAIN: IF ANYBODY IS PREACHING TO YOU A GOSPEL OTHER THAN WHAT YOU ACCEPTED, LET THEM BE UNDER GOD'S CURSE!
GALATIANS 1:10 AM I NOW TRYING TO WIN THE APPROVAL OF HUMAN BEINGS, OR OF GOD? OR AM I TRYING TO PLEASE PEOPLE? IF I WERE STILL TRYING TO PLEASE PEOPLE, I WOULD NOT BE A SERVANT OF CHRIST.
GALATIANS 1:11 I WANT YOU TO KNOW, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THAT THE GOSPEL I PREACHED IS NOT OF HUMAN ORIGIN.
GALATIANS 1:12 I DID NOT RECEIVE IT FROM ANY MAN, NOR WAS I TAUGHT IT; RATHER, I RECEIVED IT BY REVELATION FROM JESUS CHRIST.
GALATIANS 1:13 FOR YOU HAVE HEARD OF MY PREVIOUS WAY OF LIFE IN JUDAISM, HOW INTENSELY I PERSECUTED THE CHURCH OF GOD AND TRIED TO DESTROY IT.
GALATIANS 1:14 I WAS ADVANCING IN JUDAISM BEYOND MANY OF MY OWN AGE AMONG MY PEOPLE AND WAS EXTREMELY ZEALOUS FOR THE TRADITIONS OF MY FATHERS.
GALATIANS 1:15 BUT WHEN GOD, WHO SET ME APART FROM MY MOTHER'S WOMB AND CALLED ME BY HIS GRACE, WAS PLEASED
GALATIANS 1:16 TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME SO THAT I MIGHT PREACH HIM AMONG THE GENTILES, MY IMMEDIATE RESPONSE WAS NOT TO CONSULT ANY HUMAN BEING.
GALATIANS 1:17 I DID NOT GO UP TO JERUSALEM TO SEE THOSE WHO WERE APOSTLES BEFORE I WAS, BUT I WENT INTO ARABIA. LATER I RETURNED TO DAMASCUS.
GALATIANS 1:18 THEN AFTER THREE YEARS, I WENT UP TO JERUSALEM TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH CEPHAS AND STAYED WITH HIM FIFTEEN DAYS.
GALATIANS 1:19 I SAW NONE OF THE OTHER APOSTLES--ONLY JAMES, THE LORD'S BROTHER.
GALATIANS 1:20 I ASSURE YOU BEFORE GOD THAT WHAT I AM WRITING YOU IS NO LIE.
GALATIANS 1:21 THEN I WENT TO SYRIA AND CILICIA.
GALATIANS 1:22 I WAS PERSONALLY UNKNOWN TO THE CHURCHES OF JUDEA THAT ARE IN CHRIST.
GALATIANS 1:23 THEY ONLY HEARD THE REPORT: 'THE MAN WHO FORMERLY PERSECUTED US IS NOW PREACHING THE FAITH HE ONCE TRIED TO DESTROY.'
GALATIANS 1:24 And they praised God because of me.