Haweis - Galatians - 1

1:1  PAUL the apostle (not sent from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and our Father who raised him from the dead),

1:2  and all the brethren with me, to the churches of Galatia:

1:3  grace unto you, and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ;

1:4  who gave himself for our sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

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

1:6  I marvel that ye are so quickly departed from him that called you, by the grace of Christ into another gospel

1:7  which is not another; but there are certain persons who trouble you, and desire to pervert the gospel of Christ.

1:8  But though even we, or an angel from heaven, preach unto you another gospel, different from that which we have preached to you, let him be an anathema.

1:9  As we have before spoken, and I now repeat it again, If any man preach a gospel different from that ye have received, let him be anathema.

1:10  For do I now use persuasions from men, or from God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

1:11  But I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not a merely human ministry.

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

1:13  For ye have heard of my former manner of life, when I professed Judaism, that in the most outrageous manner I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

1:14  and signalized myself in Judaism above many of those of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly a zealot 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 Son in me, that I might preach the glad tidings of him to the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

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

1:18  Afterwards at the expiration of three years I went up unto Jerusalem to pay a visit to Peter, and I abode with him fifteen days.

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

1:20  Now respecting the things which I write unto you, behold, in the presence of God, I lie not.

1:21  Afterwards I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

1:22  and I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea, which are in Christ:

1:23  only they had heard, that he who persecuted us in time past, now preaches the faith which he once laid waste.

1:24  And they glorified God on my behalf.