| 1 | Paul, an Apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from among the dead-- |
| 2 | and all the brethren who are with me: To the Churches of Galatia. |
| 3 | May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 4 | who gave Himself to suffer for our sins in order to rescue us from the present wicked age in accordance with the will of our God and Father. |
| 5 | To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen. |
| 6 | I marvel that you are so readily leaving Him who called you by the grace of Christ, and are adhering to a different Good News. |
| 7 | For other 'Good News' there is none; but there are some persons who are troubling you, and are seeking to distort the Good News concerning Christ. |
| 8 | But if even we or an angel from Heaven should bring you a Good News different from that which we have already brought you, let him be accursed. |
| 9 | What I have just said I repeat--if any one is preaching to you a Good News other than that which you originally received, let him be accursed. |
| 10 | For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant. |
| 11 | For I must tell you, brethren, that the Good News which was proclaimed by me is not such as man approves of. |
| 12 | For, in fact, it was not from man that I received or learnt it, but by a revelation from Jesus Christ. |
| 13 | For you have heard of my early career in Judaism--how I furiously persecuted the Church of God, and made havoc of it; |
| 14 | and how in devotion to Judaism I outstripped many men of my own age among my people, being far more zealous than they on behalf of the traditions of my forefathers. |
| 15 | But when He who set me apart even from my birth, and called me by His grace, |
| 16 | saw fit to reveal His Son within me in order that I might tell among the Gentiles the Good News concerning Him, at once I did not confer with any human being, |
| 17 | nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were my seniors in the Apostleship, but I went away into Arabia, and afterwards came back to Damascus. |
| 18 | Then, three years later, I went up to Jerusalem to inquire for Peter, and I spent a fortnight with him. |
| 19 | I saw none of the other Apostles, except James, the Lord's brother. |
| 20 | In making these assertions I am speaking the truth, as in the sight of God. |
| 21 | Afterwards I visited Syria and Cilicia. |
| 22 | But to the Christian Churches in Judaea I was personally unknown. |
| 23 | They only heard it said, 'He who was once our persecutor is now telling the Good News of the faith of which he formerly made havoc.' |
| 24 | And they gave glory to God on my account. |