Galatians 1
1:1Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the father, the one raising him from the dead,
1:2and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia.
1:3Favor to you and peace from God the father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:4the one giving himself for our sins, so as to rescue us from out of the present wicked age, according to the will of our God and father,
1:5to whom be the glory in the eons of the eons. Amen.
1:6I marvel that so quickly you are transferred from your calling in favor of Christ, to another good news,
1:7which is not another; except there are some disturbing you, and wanting to convert the good news of the Christ.
1:8But even if we or an angel out of heaven should announce good news to you beyond which good news we announced to you, let him be anathema!
1:9As we described beforehand, and just now again I say, If anyone announces good news to you beyond what you took to yourselves, let him be anathema!
1:10For now, do I comply with men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if still I please men, I was not then Christ's bondman.
1:11But I make known to you, brethren, the good news, the good news announced by me, that it is not according to man.
1:12For I not even received it from man, nor was taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:13For you heard my behavior at some time or other in Judaism, that according to excess I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.
1:14And I progressed in the Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being exceedingly more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
1:15But when God thought well to separate me from out of the belly of my mother, and called me by his favor,
1:16to reveal his son in me, that I should announce him good news among the nations; immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood;
1:17nor went I up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me; but I went forth to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.
1:18Thereupon after three years I went up to Jerusalem to inquire of Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days.
1:19But other apostles I did not see, except James the brother of the Lord.
1:20And what things I write to you, behold, before God that I do not lie.
1:21Thereupon I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
1:22And I was not known by face to the assemblies of Judea -- to the ones in Christ.
1:23Only they were hearing that, The one persecuting us at one time, now announces good news -- the belief; which at one time he ravaged.
1:24And they glorified God in me.