Chapter 1 — The Letter to the Galatians

Address

Greeting.()

¹ () Paul, an apostle() not from human beings nor through a human being but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,()

² () and all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

³ grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴ () who gave himself for our sins that he might rescue us from the present evil age in accord with the will of our God and Father,()

⁵ to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.()

Loyalty to the Gospel()

⁶ () I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you() by [the] grace [of Christ] for a different gospel

⁷ (not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.

⁸ () But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach [to you] a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed!()

⁹ As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed!

¹⁰ () Am I now currying favor with human beings or God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.()

Paul’s Defense of His Gospel and His Authority(9)

His Call by Christ.

¹¹ () Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin.

¹² For I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ.()

¹³ () For you heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it,()

¹⁴ and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions.()

¹⁵ But when [God], who from my mother’s womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased()

¹⁶ to reveal his Son to me,() so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood,()

¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; rather, I went into Arabia() and then returned to Damascus.

¹⁸ () Then after three years() I went up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas and remained with him for fifteen days.()

¹⁹ But I did not see any other of the apostles,() only James the brother of the Lord.()

²⁰ (As to what I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.)()

²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.()

²² And I was unknown personally to the churches of Judea that are in Christ;

²³ they only kept hearing that “the one who once was persecuting us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”()

²⁴ So they glorified God because of me.