Galatians, 1
He blames the Galatians for suffering themselves to be imposed upon by new teachers. The apostle's calling.
[1] Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead: •
[2] And all the brethren who are with me: to the churches of Galatia.
[3] Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
[4] Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:
[5] To whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.
[6] I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. •
[7] Which is not another: only there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. •
[8] But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. •
[9] As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. •
[10] For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. •
[11] For I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. •
[12] For neither did I receive it of man: nor did I learn it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. •
[13] For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God and wasted it.
[14] And I made progress in the Jew's religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. •
[15] But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace,
[16] To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood. •
[17] Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles who were before me: but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus. •
[18] Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Peter: and I tarried with him fifteen days. •
[19] But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of the Lord. •
[20] Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not. •
[21] Afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. •
[22] And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ: •
[23] But they had heard only: He, who persecuted us in times past doth now preach the faith which once he impugned.
[24] And they glorified God in me.