Galatians:1

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* Paul , an apostle (not from men , nor through man , but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead ), * and all the brothers with me , to the congregations of Galatia : * Grace to you and peace from God the Father , and our Lord Jesus Christ * who gave himself for our sins , so that he might rescue us , according to the will of our God and Father , out of the evil age that has come , * to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages . Truly . * I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ to another good-news , * which is not another , except there are some who confuse you , and who want to pervert the good-news of the Christ . * But even if we , or an agent from heaven , should preach a good-news to you contrary to what we preached to you , let him be accursed . * As we have said before , I now also say again , if any man preaches a good-news to you contrary to what ye received , let him be accursed . * For do I now trust men or God ? Or do I seek to please men ? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ . * For I make known to you , brothers , the good-news that was preached by me , that it is not according to man . * For I neither received it from man , nor was I taught it , but it was through revelation of Jesus Christ . * For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism , that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness , and ravaged it . * And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race , being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions . * But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother 's belly , and called me through his grace , * to reveal his Son in me , so that I might preach him among the Gentiles , I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood , * nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me , but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus . * Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit with Peter , and I remained with him fifteen days . * But I did not see another of the apostles except James the Lord 's brother . * Now what I write to you , behold before God , I do not lie . * Later I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia . * And I was unknown by face to the congregations of Judea in Christ , * but they were only hearing that the man who once persecuted us now preaches the good-news , the faith that he once ravaged . * And they glorified God in me .

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