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¹ Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the One raising Him from the dead,² and all the brothers with me, to the assemblies of Galatia.³ Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,⁴ who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,⁵ to whom be the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.

⁶ I wonder that you are so quickly turning back from the One having called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel,⁷ which is not another; only there are some troubling you, even determined to pervert the gospel of Christ.⁸ But even if we, or an angel out of Heaven, should preach a gospel to you beside the gospel we preached to you, let him be accursed.⁹ As we have said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel beside what you received, let him be accursed.

¹⁰ For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a slave of Christ.¹¹ And, brothers, I make known to you the gospel preached by me, that it is not according to man.¹² For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it , but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.¹³ For you heard my way of life when I was in Judaism, that with surpassing zeal I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.¹⁴ And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my ancestors.¹⁵ But when God was pleased, He having separated me from my mother's belly, and having called me through His grace, Isa. 49:1 ¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood,¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.¹⁸ Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to learn from Peter and remained with him fifteen days.¹⁹ But I saw no other of the apostles except James the brother of the Lord.²⁰ And what I write to you, behold, before God I do not lie.²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,²² but I was not known by face to the assemblies of Judea in Christ.²³ But only they were hearing that he who was persecuting us then, now preaches the gospel, the faith which he then ravaged;²⁴ and they glorified God in me.