Galatians 1

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

1 Paul^[a]— an apostle not from humans nor through a human, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the One having raised Him from the dead— ² and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia: ³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ the One having given Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us out of the present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father, ⁵ to Whom be the glory forever and ever, amen.

Are You Turning Away From The Gospel I Received Through a Revelation From Christ?

⁶ I am marveling that you are so quickly^[b] turning-away from the One having called you by the grace of Christ to a different good-news— ⁷ which is not another^[c] [good news]— except there are some disturbing you and intending^[d] to change^[e] the good-news of Christ. ⁸ But even if we or an angel from heaven should^[f] announce-a-good-news to you other-than^[g] what we announced-as-good-news to you, let him be accursed^[h]. ⁹ As we have said-before I am also now saying again— if anyone is^[i] announcing-a-good-news-to you other-than what you received, let him be accursed. ¹⁰ For am I now trying to win-approval-of ^[j] humans or God? Or am I seeking to please humans? If I were still^[k] seeking to please humans, I would not be a slave of Christ! ¹¹ For I make-known to you, brothers, as to the good-news having been announced-as-good-news by me, that it is not according-to^[l] a human^[m]. ¹² For I neither received it from a human, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of ^[n] Jesus Christ.

For When God Was Pleased To Reveal Himself To Me, I Conferred With No One

¹³ For you heard-of my former conduct in Judaism— that I was persecuting the church of God extremely, and destroying^[o] it. ¹⁴ And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, being far more a zealot for the traditions of my fathers. ¹⁵ But when God— the One having separated me from my mother’s womb^[p] and having called me through His grace— was well-pleased ¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me in order that I might be announcing Him as good news among the Gentiles, I did not immediately communicate^[q] with flesh and blood, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia and returned back to Damascus.

Three Years Later I Went To Jerusalem And Visited Peter And James

¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ But I did not see another of the apostles except^[r] James, the brother of the Lord. ²⁰ Now the things which I am writing to you, behold— I affirm in the sight of God that I am not lying. ²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²² And I was not-known by face to the churches of Judea in Christ, ²³ but they were only hearing that “the one once persecuting us is now announcing-as-good-news the faith which he was once destroying”. ²⁴ And they were glorifying God in^[s] me.