Galatians 1–2

¹Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead— ²and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: ³Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father, ⁵to whom is the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.

⁶I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; ⁷that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ; ⁸but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you—anathema let him be! ⁹as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive—anathema let him be!

¹⁰For now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please—Christ’s servant I should not be. ¹¹And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man, ¹²for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ, ¹³for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it, ¹⁴and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers’ deliverances, ¹⁵and when God was well pleased—having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace— ¹⁶to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood, ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus, ¹⁸then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days, ¹⁹and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord. ²⁰And the things that I write to you, lo, before God—I lie not; ²¹then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia, ²²and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that are in Christ, ²³and only they were hearing, that ‘he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news—the faith that then he was wasting;’ ²⁴and they were glorifying God in me.

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¹Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus; ²and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run; ³but not even Titus, who is with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised— ⁴and that because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage, ⁵to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you. ⁶And from those who were esteemed to be something—whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me—the face of man God accepteth not, for—to me those esteemed did add nothing, ⁷but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with that of the circumcision, ⁸for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations, ⁹and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision may go, ¹⁰only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent—this very thing—to do.

¹¹And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, ¹²for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision, ¹³and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation. ¹⁴But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, ‘If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize? ¹⁵we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations, ¹⁶having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.’ ¹⁷And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be! ¹⁸for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth; ¹⁹for I through law, did die, that to God I may live; ²⁰with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh—in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me; ²¹I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law—then Christ died in vain.

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