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¹ Paul an apostle (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the father who raised him from the dead) and all the brethren, ² who are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: grace be to you, and peace from God the father, ³ and from our Lord Jesus Christ: who gave himself for our sins, ⁴ that he might deliver us from the vices of this present age, according to the will of God, even our father: to ⁵ whom be glory for ever and ever. amen. I wonder you have so soon deserted unto another gospel,

⁶ from me, who called you by the grace of Christ; this can be ⁷ owing to nothing but your being practised upon by some, who would overturn the gospel of Christ. ⁸ but tho' I, or an angel from heaven should preach any thing to you for gospel, different from the gospel I have preached unto you, let him be accursed. ⁹ as I said before, so say I now again, if any one preach any other thing to you for gospel, than what you have received, let him be accursed.

¹⁰ for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ. ¹¹ I certify to you, brethren, that the gospel, which has been preached by me, is not the result of human artifice: ¹² for I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ you have heard of my former behaviour, whilst I was of the Jewish religion, with what excessive violence I persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste: ¹⁴ and that I made a greater proficiency in Judaism than many my contemporaries of my own nation, being an extraordinary zealot for the traditions of my forefathers. ¹⁵ but when it pleased God, who ordained me from my birth, and called me by his especial favour, to reveal his son to me, ¹⁶ that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not thereupon apply my self to any man; ¹⁷ neither went I up to Jerusalem, to those who were apostles before me: but I went immediately to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. ¹⁸ After three years, I went up to Jerusalem, to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days: ¹⁹ but other of the apostles saw I none, except James the Lord's brother. ²⁰ what I write to you, I call God to witness is all true: ²¹ afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; ²² but was personally unknown to the churches of Christ in Judea, ²³ who had only heard, that I, who formerly persecuted them, did now preach the gospel of faith, which I once endeavoured to suppress: ²⁴ and they glorified God upon my account.