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 churches of Galatia . * Grace [be ] to you , and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ , * who gave Himself for our sins , that He might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father , * to whom [be ] glory forever and ever . Amen . * I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into [the ] grace of Christ , to another gospel , * which is not another , but some are troubling you , and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ . * But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you , let him be accursed . * As we said before , and now I say again , If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received , let him be accursed . * For now do I persuade men , or God ? Or do I seek to please men ? For if I yet pleased men , I would not be a servant of Christ . * And , brothers , I make known to you the gospel which was preached by me , that it is not according to man . * For I did not receive it from man , nor was I taught [it ] except by a revelation of Jesus Christ . * For you heard my manner of life when [I was ] in Judaism , that I persecuted the church of God with surpassing [zeal ], and ravaged it . * And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race , being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers . * But when it pleased God , who separated me from my mother 's womb , and having called [me ] by His grace , * to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the nations , immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood ; * Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those apostles before me , but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus . * Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter , and stayed with him fifteen days . * But I saw no other of the apostles , except James the Lord 's brother . * And what I write to you , behold , before God , I do not lie . * Then I went into the regions of Syria and of Cilicia , * and was unknown by face to the churches of Judea in Christ . * But only they were hearing that he who then persecuted us , now preaches the faith which he once ravaged . * And they glorified God in me .

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