1 PAUL, apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),
2 and all the brethren with me, to the churches of: Galatia:
3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who gave himself for our: sins, that he deliver us from the present evil: age, according to the will of: God and our Father:
5 to whom the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen.
6 I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in Christ’s grace unto a different gospel;
7 which is not another: only there are some that trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of the Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel other than what we preached to you, let him be anathema.
9 As we have said before, so say I now again, If any preacheth to you a gospel other than what ye received, let him be anathema.
Grace by Divine Revelation
10 For am I now seeking men’s favor, or: God’s? or am I seeking to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be Christ’s bondman.
11 But I make known to you, brethren, as to the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.
12 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but through revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For ye have heard of my whilom conduct in: Judaism, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of: God, and made havoc of it:
14 and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of mine own age among my: race, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it was God’s good pleasure who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his: grace,
16 to reveal his: Son in me, that I preach him among the nations; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:
17 neither went I up to Jerusalem unto the apostles before me, but went away into Arabia, and again returned unto Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him fifteen days.
19 But other of the apostles saw I none, but only James the brother of the Lord.
20 Now touching the things which I write you, lo, before: God, that I lie not.
21 Then I came into the regions of: Syria and: Cilicia.
22 And I was unknown by: face to the churches of: Judæa which were in Christ:
23 but they had only been hearing [that], Who once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;
24 and they glorified: God in me.