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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead) |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father, |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5to whom be glory forever and ever! Amen. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel-- |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell! |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell! |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ! |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being, |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you! |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Afterward I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23They were only hearing, "The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith he once tried to destroy." |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So they glorified God because of me. |
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