Galatians 1

¹Paul an Apostle not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father that raised him from the dead,

²and all the brethren that are with me; to the churches of Galatia.

³Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of our God and Father:

⁵to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

⁶I marvel that thus so soon you are transferred from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another Gospel:

⁷which is not another, unless there be some that trouble you, and will invert the Gospel of Christ.

⁸But although we, or an Angel from Heaven, evangelize to you beside that which we have evangelized to you, be he anathema.

⁹As we have said before, so now I say again: If any evangelize to you, beside that which you have received, be he anathema.

¹⁰For do I now use persuasion to men, or to God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet did please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

¹¹For I do you to understand, brethren, the Gospel that was evangelized of me, that it is not according to man.

¹²For neither did I receive it of man, nor learn it; but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹³For you have heard my conversation sometime in Judaism, that above measure I persecuted the Church of God, and expugned it,

¹⁴and profited in Judaism above many of mine equals in my nation, being more abundantly an emulator of the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵But when it pleased him that separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me,

¹⁶that I should evangelize him among the Gentiles, incontinent I condescended not to flesh and blood,

¹⁷neither came I to Jerusalem to the Apostles my antecessors: but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus.

¹⁸Then, after three years I came to Jerusalem to see Peter: and tarried with him fifteen days.

¹⁹But other of the Apostles saw I none; saving James the brother of our Lord.

²⁰And the things that I write to you; behold before God, that I lie not.

²¹After that, I came into the parts of Syria and Cilicia.

²²And I was unknown by sight to the churches of Jewry, that were in Christ:

²³but they had heard only, That he which persecuted us sometime, doth now evangelize the faith which sometime he expugned:

²⁴and in me they glorified God.