Introduction
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📚Paul, an apostle✭ (not sent from men or by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead)✭, 2 📚✭and all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:3 📚 Grace✭ be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 📚who gave himself for our sins✭, that he might deliver us✭ from this present evil world✭, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 📚to whom be glory✭ for ever and ever. Amen.
Some were trying to pervert the gospel of Christ
6 📚I am amazed that you are turning away✭ so soon from him who called you✭ by the grace of Christ, to a different gospel✭, 7 📚which is not another✭. But there are some who are troubling you✭, and want to pervert✭ the gospel of Christ. 8 📚But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than the one we have preached to you, let him be under a curse✭. 9 📚✭As we already said, so now I say again: If anyone preaches any other gospel to you than the one you received, let him be under a curse.
Paul sets forth his apostleship
10 📚✭For do I now try to gain men’s favor, or God’s? Or am I seeking to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be the servant of Christ.
Christ Himself revealed the gospel to Paul
11 📚But I tell you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not of man. 12 📚✭For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but learned it by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Paul’s early days after he believed in Christ
13 📚For you have heard of my former conduct in the Jews’ religion, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure, and tried to destroy it.
14 📚And I advanced in the Jews’ religion more than many of my contemporaries in my own nation, far surpassing them in zeal for the traditions of my fathers. 15 📚But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb✭ and called me by his grace✭, 16 📚✭to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles✭, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17 📚✭nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
18 📚✭Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. 19 📚But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. 20 📚✭Now about these things I am writing to you, look, in the presence of God, I am not lying. 21 📚✭Afterwards I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia, 22 📚✭but my face was not known to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. 23 📚✭They had only heard that “He who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy”. 24 📚And they glorified God in me.