AFV2020 - Galatians - 1

1:1  Paul, an apostle, not sent from men nor made by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, Who raised Him from the dead;

1:2  And all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

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

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

1:5  To Whom be the glory into the ages of eternity. Amen.

1:6  I am astonished that you are so quickly being turned away from Him Who called you into the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,

1:7  Which in reality is not another gospel; but there are some who are troubling you and are desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

1:8  But if we, or even an angel from heaven, should preach a gospel to you that is contrary to what we have preached, LET HIM BE ACCURSED!

1:9  As we have said before, I also now say again. If anyone is preaching a gospel contrary to what you have received, LET HIM BE ACCURSED!

1:10  Now then, am I striving to please men, or God? Or am I motivated to please men? For if I am yet pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

1:11  But I certify to you, brethren, that the gospel that was preached by me is not according to man;

1:12  Because neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it by man; rather, it was by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1:13  For you heard of my former conduct when I was in Judaism, how I was excessively persecuting the church of God and was destroying it;

1:14  And I was advancing in Judaism far beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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

1:16  To reveal His own Son in me, in order that I might preach Him as the gospel among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,

1:17  Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

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

1:19  But I did not see any of the other apostles, except James the brother of the Lord.

1:20  (Now the things that I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.)

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

1:22  But I was unknown by face to the churches in Judea which are in Christ;

1:23  They only heard, "The one who once persecuted us is now preaching the gospel— the faith which he once destroyed."

1:24  And they glorified God in me.