LITV - Galatians - 1

1:1  Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the One raising Him from the dead,

1:2  and all the brothers 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, so that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

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

1:6  I wonder that you are so quickly being transferred from Him having called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel,

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

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

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

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

1:11  And, brothers, I make known to you the gospel 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 , but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

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

1:15  But when God was pleased, "He having separated me from my mother's womb" and having called through His grace, Isa. 49:1

1:16  to reveal His Son in me, 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 the 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 remained with him fifteen days.

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

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  but I was not known by face to the churches of Judea in Christ.

1:23  But only they were hearing that he who was persecuting us then, now proclaims the faith which he then ravaged;

1:24  and they glorified God in me.