MKJV - 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 churches of Galatia.

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

1:4  who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father,

1:5  to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

1:6  I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel,

1:7  which is not another, but some are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

1:8  But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed.

1:9  As we said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed.

1:10  For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

1:11  And, brothers, I make known to you the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

1:12  For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it except by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

1:13  For you heard my manner of life when I was in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God with surpassing zeal, and ravaged it.

1:14  And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers.

1:15  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me by His grace,

1:16  to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood;

1:17  Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those 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 see Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

1:19  But I saw no other of the apostles, except James the Lord's brother.

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

1:21  Then I went into the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,

1:22  and was unknown by face to the churches of Judea in Christ.

1:23  But only they were hearing that he who then persecuted us, now preaches the faith which he once ravaged.

1:24  And they glorified God in me.