Worsley - Galatians - 1

1:1  Paul an apostle (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

1:2  and all the brethren that are 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 the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:

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

1:6  I wonder that ye are so soon removed from him who called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel: which is not another;

1:7  but there be some that disturb you, and would subvert the gospel of Christ.

1:8  But tho' we or an angel from heaven should preach to you any other gospel than what we have preached to you; let him be accursed.

1:9  I say it again, if any one preach to you any other gospel than what ye have received, let him be accursed.

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

1:11  But I assure you, brethren, that the gospel preached by me is not of human invention.

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

1:13  For ye have heard of my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I outragiously persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste:

1:14  and I made a proficiency in Judaism above many of the same age with me in my own nation, being excessively zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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

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  nor went I up to Jerusalem to those that were apostles before me, but I departed into Arabia, and afterwards returned again to Damascus.

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

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

1:20  (Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.)

1:21  Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,

1:22  and was not known in person to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ.

1:23  But only they had heard that he who persecuted us before, now preacheth the faith which he formerly would have destroyed.

1:24  And they glorified God on my account.