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# Chapter 1
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1 Paul, an apostle—not from men or by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead—
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2 and all the brothers who are with me:
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To the churches of Galatia.
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3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
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4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
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5 To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
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7 not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
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8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, a curse be on him!
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9 As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!
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10 For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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11 For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin.
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12 For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation of Jesus Christ.
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13 For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I intensely persecuted God’s church and tried to destroy it.
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14 I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
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15 But when God, who from my mother’s womb set me apart and called me by his grace, was pleased
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16 to reveal his Son in me, so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.
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17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.
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18 Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.
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19 But I didn’t see any of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.
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20 I declare in the sight of God: I am not lying in what I write to you.
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21 Afterward, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
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22 I remained personally unknown to the Judean churches that are in Christ.
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23 They simply kept hearing, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”
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24 And they glorified God because of me. |