Godbey - 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 brethren who are with me, to the churches 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, in order that he might redeem us from the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father:

1:5  To whom be glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen.

1:6  I am astonished that you are so quickly removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ into another gospel;

1:7  which is not another: but there are certain ones who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the gospel of Christ.

1:8  But indeed if we, or an angel from heaven, may preach unto you any other gospel except that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

1:9  As we have before said, and now again I tell you, If any one preaches to you a gospel except that which you have received, let him be accursed.

1:10  For must I now believe men, or God? whether do I seek to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I would not be the servant of Christ.

1:11  But I make known to you, brethren, the gospel was preached to me, that it is not according to a man;

1:12  for I did not receive it from man, neither was I taught it, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1:13  For you have heard of my life formerly in Judaism, that I was persecuting the church of God exceedingly, and destroying it:

1:14  and I was prominent in Judaism above many comrades in my race, being exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

1:15  When the one having separated me, from the womb of my mother, and called me through his grace, was pleased

1:16  to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

1:17  neither 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 see Cephas, and remained with him fifteen days;

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

1:20  Which things moreover I write unto you, behold, before God, that I lie not.

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

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

1:23  But they were only hearing that The one persecuting us at one time is now preaching the faith which he was once desolating;

1:24  and they continued to glorify God in me.