The Bible

Galatians Chapter 1

¹Paul, an apostle- not from people, nor through a human, but through Jesus AnointedOne, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead- ²and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: ³Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus AnointedOne, ⁴who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father- ⁵to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁶I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of AnointedOne to a different "good news", ⁷but there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of AnointedOne.

⁸But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than what we preached to you, let them be cursed.

⁹As we have said before, so we now affirm again: if anyone preaches to you any "good news" other than what you received, let them be cursed.

¹⁰For am I now seeking the favor of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? For if I were still pleasing people, I wouldn't be a servant of AnointedOne.

¹¹But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to mankind.

¹²For I didn't receive it from a human, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus AnointedOne.

¹³For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

¹⁴I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace ¹⁶to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood, ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

¹⁸Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

¹⁹But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord's brother.

²⁰Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying.

²¹Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

²²I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in AnointedOne, ²³but they only heard, "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy." ²⁴So they glorified God in me.