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¹ PAUL, an Apostle, not sent by men, nor appointed 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 God our Father:⁵ To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

⁶ I am surprised how soon you have turned to another gospel, away from Christ who has called you by his grace;⁷ A gospel which does not exist; howbeit, there are men who have stirred you up, and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.⁸ But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.⁹ As I have said before, so say I now again, If any man preaches any other gospel to you than that you have received, let him be accursed.

¹⁰ Do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I tried to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.¹¹ But I want you to know, my brethren, the gospel that I preached was not from men.¹² For I did not receive it nor learn it from man, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.¹³ You have heard of the manner of my life in time past in the Jews'' religion, how beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God and tried to destroy it:¹⁴ And how that I was far more advanced in the Jews'' religion than many of my age among the people of my race for above all, I was especially zealous for the doctrines of my forefathers.¹⁵ But when it pleased God, who had chosen me from my birth, and called me by his grace,¹⁶ To reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately disclose it to any human being:¹⁷ Neither did I go up to Jerusalem to them who had been apostles before me; but instead I went to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.¹⁹ But I did not see any one of the other apostles, except James the brother of our LORD.²⁰ Now the things which I write to you, behold, I confess before God, I do not lie.²¹ After that I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia;²² And I was unknown by face to the churches of Christ in Juda.²³ For they had heard only this much; that he who had persecuted us before now preached the faith which previously he tried to destroy.²⁴ And they praised God because of me.