Bible Time

¹PAUL, an apostle, not sent by men nor appointed by man, but by Jesus Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead, ²And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia: ³Grace be to you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Messiah, ⁴Who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God our Father; ⁵To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁶I am surprised how soon you have turned to another gospel, away from Messiah who has called you by his grace, ⁷A gospel which does not even exist; nevertheless, there are men who have stirred you up and want to pervert the gospel of Messiah. ⁸But 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. ⁹As 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.

¹⁰Do 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 Messiah. ¹¹But I want you to know, my brothers, that the gospel which I preached was not from men. ¹²For I did not receive it nor learn it from man, but through the revelation of Jesus Messiah. ¹³You 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; ¹⁴And how 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. ¹⁵But when it pleased God, who had chosen me from my birth and called me by his grace, ¹⁶To reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately disclose it to any human being; ¹⁷Neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who had been apostles before me; but instead I went to Arabia and returned again to Damascus. ¹⁸Then after 3 years I went up to Jerusalem to see Kepa, and stayed with him 15 days. ¹⁹But I did not see any of the other apostles except Jacob the brother of our Lord. ²⁰Now the things which I write to you, look, I confess before God, I do not lie. ²¹After that I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia; ²²And I was unknown by face to the churches of Messiah in Judea. ²³For they had heard only this much: that he who had persecuted us before now preached the faith which previously he tried to destroy. ²⁴And they praised God because of me.