1I PAUL, who am appointed and commissioned a messenger not by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father (who raised him from the dead),
2I and all the brothers with me send greetings to the churches in Galatia.
3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
4who according to the will of our God and Father gave himself for our sins and thereby rescued us from the present evil worldorder.
5To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
6I am amazed that you have so quickly transferred your allegiance from him who called you by the grace of Christ to another "gospel"!
7Not that it is another gospel, but there are men who are upsetting your faith with a travesty of the gospel of Christ.
8Yet I say that if I, or an angel from Heaven, were to preach to you any other gospel than the one you have heard, may he be damned!
9You have heard me say it before and now I say it againmay anybody who preaches any other gospel than the one you have already heard be a damned soul!
10(Does that make you think now that I am seeking man's approval or God's? Am I trying to please men? If I were trying to win human approval I should never be Christ's servant.)
11I do assure you, my brothers, that the gospel I preached to you is no human invention.
12No man gave it to me, no man taught it to me; it came to me as a direct revelation from Jesus Christ.
13For you have heard of my past career in the Jewish religion, how I persecuted the Church of God with fanatical zeal and, in fact, did my best to destroy it.
14I was ahead of most of my contemporaries in the Jewish religion, and had a boundless enthusiasm for the old traditions.
15But when it pleased God (who had chosen me from the moment of my birth, and called me by his grace)
16to reveal his Son to me: so that I might proclaim him to the nonJewish world, I did not at once talk over the matter with any human being.
17I did not even go to Jerusalem to meet those who were God's messengers before meno, I went away to Arabia and later came back to Damascus.
18It was not until three years later that I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and I stayed with him just over two weeks.
19I did not see any of the other messengers, except James, the Lord's brother.
20All this that I am telling you is, I assure you before God, the plain truth.
21Later, I visited districts in Syria and Cilicia,
22but I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judaea.
23All they knew of me, in fact, was the saying: "The man who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
24And they thanked God for what had happened to me.
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