1 ¶ Paul, apostle (not from men neither through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead)

2 a nd all the brethren who are with me, unto the congregations of Galatia:

3 G race be unto you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

4 w ho gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

5 u nto whom be the glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

6 ¶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel,

7 f or there is not another; but there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of the Christ.

8 B ut even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be anathema.

9 A s we said before, so do I say now again, If anyone preaches any other gospel unto you than what ye have received, let him be anathema.

10 ¶ For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ.

11 B ut I make known unto you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not according to man.

12 F or I did not receive it nor learn it from man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

13 F or ye have heard of my conversation in time past in Judaism, how that beyond measure I was persecuting and destroying the congregation of God

14 A nd profited in Judaism above many of my equals in my own nation, being exceedingly more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

15 B ut when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace,

16 t o reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood,

17 n either did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus.

18 T hen after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days.

19 B ut I saw none of the other apostles, except James the Lord’s brother.

20 N ow the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

21 A fterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia

22 a nd was unknown by face unto the congregations of Judaea which were in Christ,

23 b ut they had only heard, That he who persecuted us in time past now preaches the faith which he once destroyed.

24 A nd they glorified God in me.