ACV - Galatians - 1

1:1  Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead),

1:2  and all the brothers with me, to the congregations of Galatia:

1:3  Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ

1:4  who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come,

1:5  to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

1:6  I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ to another good news,

1:7  which is not another, except there are some who confuse you, and who want to pervert the good news of the Christ.

1:8  But even if we, or an agent from heaven, should preach a good news to you contrary to what we preached to you, let him be accursed.

1:9  As we have said before, I now also say again, if any man preaches a good news to you contrary to what ye received, let him be accursed.

1:10  For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

1:11  For I make known to you, brothers, the good news that was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

1:12  For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it was through revelation of Jesus Christ.

1:13  For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it.

1:14  And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions.

1:15  But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace,

1:16  to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood,

1:17  nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

1:18  Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days.

1:19  But I did not see another of the apostles except James the Lord's brother.

1:20  Now what I write to you, behold before God, I do not lie.

1:21  Later I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

1:22  And I was unknown by face to the congregations of Judea in Christ,

1:23  but they were only hearing that the man who once persecuted us now preaches the good news, the faith that he once ravaged.

1:24  And they glorified God in me.