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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2All the brothers and sisters here join me in sending this letter to the churches of Galatia. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3May God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5All glory to God forever and ever! Amen. There Is Only One Good News |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I say again what we have said before: If anyone preaches any other Good News than the one you welcomed, let that person be cursed. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant. Paul’s Message Comes from Christ |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13You know what I was like when I followed the Jewish religion—how I violently persecuted God’s church. I did my best to destroy it. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16to reveal his Son to me so that I would proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles. When this happened, I did not rush out to consult with any human being. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to consult with those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went away into Arabia, and later I returned to the city of Damascus. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then three years later I went to Jerusalem to get to know Peter, and I stayed with him for fifteen days. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The only other apostle I met at that time was James, the Lord’s brother. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I declare before God that what I am writing to you is not a lie. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21After that visit I went north into the provinces of Syria and Cilicia. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And still the churches in Christ that are in Judea didn’t know me personally. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23All they knew was that people were saying, “The one who used to persecute us is now preaching the very faith he tried to destroy!” |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And they praised God because of me. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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