Galatians 1
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1From Paul, an apostle. I was not chosen to be an apostle by human beings, nor was I sent from human beings. I was made an apostle through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Jesus from the dead. 2This letter is also from all those of God’s family who are with me.
To the churches in Galatia:
3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4Jesus gave himself for our sins to free us from this evil world we live in, as God the Father planned. 5The glory belongs to God forever and ever. Amen.
The Only Good News
6God, by his grace through Christ, called you to become his people. So I am amazed that you are turning away so quickly and believing something different than the Good News. 7Really, there is no other Good News. But some people are confusing you; they want to change the Good News of Christ. 8We preached to you the Good News. So if we ourselves, or even an angel from heaven, should preach to you something different, we should be judged guilty! 9I said this before, and now I say it again: You have already accepted the Good News. If anyone is preaching something different to you, let that person be judged guilty!
10Do you think I am trying to make people accept me? No, God is the One I am trying to please. Am I trying to please people? If I still wanted to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Paul’s Authority Is from God
11Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the Good News I preached to you was not made up by human beings. 12I did not get it from humans, nor did anyone teach it to me, but Jesus Christ showed it to me.
13You have heard about my past life in the Jewish religion. I attacked the church of God and tried to destroy it. 14I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion, doing better than most other Jews of my age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the teachings handed down by our ancestors.
15But God had special plans for me and set me apart for his work even before I was born. He called me through his grace 16and showed his son to me so that I might tell the Good News about him to those who are not Jewish. When God called me, I did not get advice or help from any person. 17I did not go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was. But, without waiting, I went away to Arabia and later went back to Damascus.
18After three years I went to Jerusalem to meet Peter and stayed with him for fifteen days. 19I met no other apostles, except James, the brother of the Lord. 20God knows that these things I write are not lies. 21Later, I went to the areas of Syria and Cilicia.
22In Judea the churches in Christ had never met me. 23They had only heard it said, “This man who was attacking us is now preaching the same faith that he once tried to destroy.” 24And these believers praised God because of me.
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