Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through men but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the one having raised him from (the) dead, 2 and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia, 3 grace to you and peace from God our Father and (the) Lord Jesus Christ, 4 the one having given himself for our sins, so that he might deliver us from the present evil age[fn]This is not the whole of fallen human history but the political-religious crisis that has recently come upon Israel.[/fn] according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom the glory for the ages of ages, amen.
6 I am astonished that in this way quickly you transfer from the one having called you by grace [of Christ] to another gospel, 7 which is not another, except that there are some confusing you and wanting to turn the gospel of the Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven may proclaim-good-news [to you] beside what we proclaimed to you, let him be one accursed. 9 As we have said before, and now again I say: if anyone proclaims-good-news to you beside what you received, let him be one accursed.
10 For do I now appeal to men or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I was still pleasing men, I was not a servant of Christ. 11 For I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which was proclaimed by me that it is not according to a human person; 12 for I did not receive it from people, nor was it taught, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For you heard of my manner-of-life once in Judaism, that exceedingly I persecuted the church of God and was destroying it, 14 and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, being even more zealous for my ancestral traditions.
15 But when [God] the one having set me apart from the womb of my mother and having called through his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me in order that I might proclaim him among the nations,[fn]Paul’s gospel was that the Son by whom God had saved his people from annihilation would sooner or later become judge and ruler also of the nations of the Greek-Roman world (cf. Rom. 15:8-12; Acts 17:30-31).[/fn] I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia and again returned to Damascus. 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. 19 Another of the apostles I did not see except James, the brother of the Lord. 20 The things I write to you, behold before God that I do not lie. 21 Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; 22 and I was unknown in person to the churches of Judea (which are) in Christ. 23 They were only hearing that “the one persecuting us once now proclaims the faith which once he was destroying.” 24 And they were glorifying God on account of me.
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