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[1]PAUL, a legate, not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus the Messiah, and God his Father, who raised him from the dead;
[2]and all the brethren who are with me; unto the churches which are in Galatia.
[3]Grace be with you, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah;
[4]who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this evil world, agreeably to the pleasure of God our Father:
[5]to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
[6]I admire, how soon ye have turned from the Messiah, who called you by his grace, unto another gospel ;
[7]which doth not exist, except as there are some who would disquiet you, and are disposed to pervert the gospel of the Messiah.
[8]But if we, or an angel from heaven, should announce to you differently from what we have announced to you, let him be accursed.
[9]As I have just said, and now I again say it, that if any one announce to you differently from what ye received, let him be accursed.
[10]For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I had till now pleased men, I should not have been a servant of the Messiah.
[11]But I make known to you, my brethren, that the gospel announced by me, was not from man.
[12]For I did not receive it and learn it from man, but [I had it] by revelation from Jesus the Messiah.
[13]For ye have heard of my former course of life in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God exceedingly, and destroyed it:
[14]and that I went much farther in Judaism than many of my contemporaries who were of my nation, and was peculiarly zealous for the doctrine 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 by me, that I should proclaim him among the Gentiles; forthwith, I did not open it to flesh and blood;
[17]nor did I go to Jerusalem, to them who were legates before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus:
[18]and after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Cephas; and I remained with him fifteen days.
[19]But others of the legates I saw not, except James, our Lord's brother.
[20]In the things which I am writing to you, behold, before God ! I lie not.
[21]And after that, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
[22]And the churches in Judaea which were in the Messiah; did not know me personally:
[23]but this only had they heard, that he who before persecuted us, now preacheth that faith which in time preceding he subverted:
[24]and they glorified God in me.
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