Chapter 1

  Paul, an Apostle (not from men, and not through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who made him come back from the dead),  

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  And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:  

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  Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,  

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  Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:  

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  To whom be the glory for ever and ever. So be it.  

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  I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;  

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  Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.  

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  But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.  

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  As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him.  

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  Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.  

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  Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.  

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  For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.  

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  For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:  

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  And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.  

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  But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,  

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  To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,  

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  And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.  

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  Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.  

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  But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother.  

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  Now God is witness that the things which I am writing to you are true.  

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  Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia.  

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  And the churches of Judaea which were in Christ still had no knowledge of my face or person:  

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  Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;  

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  And they gave glory to God in me.  

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