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Galatians 1

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1Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead), ✦ 2and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: ✦ 3Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ✦ 4who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ✦ 5to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. ✦ 6I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, ✦ 7which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. ✦ 8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. ✦ 9As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. ✦ 10For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. ✦ 11But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. ✦ 12For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. ✦ 13For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. ✦ 14And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. ✦ 15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, ✦ 16to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, ✦ 17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. ✦ 18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. ✦ 19But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. ✦ 20(Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.) ✦ 21Afterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ✦ 22And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ. ✦ 23But they were hearing only, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy.” ✦ 24And they glorified God in me. ✦

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Acts 9 ·17Gal 1 ·9Acts 22 ·8Eph 1 ·8Rom 1 ·81 Tim 1 ·81 Cor 1 ·6Acts 26 ·6

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