Galatians 1:6-20

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No Other Gospel

⁶I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called^(A) you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel^(B)— ⁷which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion^(C) and are trying to pervert^(D) the gospel of Christ. ⁸But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you,^(E) let them be under God’s curse!^(F) ⁹As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted,^(G) let them be under God’s curse!

¹⁰Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people?^(H) If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Paul Called by God

¹¹I want you to know, brothers and sisters,^(I) that the gospel I preached^(J) is not of human origin. ¹²I did not receive it from any man,^(K) nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation^(L) from Jesus Christ.^(M)

¹³For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism,^(N) how intensely I persecuted the church of God^(O) and tried to destroy it.^(P) ¹⁴I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous^(Q) for the traditions of my fathers.^(R) ¹⁵But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb^(S) and called me^(T) by his grace, was pleased ¹⁶to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles,^(U) my immediate response was not to consult any human being.^(V) ¹⁷I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.^(W)

¹⁸Then after three years,^(X) I went up to Jerusalem^(Y) to get acquainted with Cephas^[a] and stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹I saw none of the other apostles—only James,^(Z) the Lord’s brother. ²⁰I assure you before God^(AA) that what I am writing you is no lie.^(AB)