1 Paul, an apostle not from men and not through any man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the one who raised him from the dead,
2 and all the brothers here with me, to the churches of Galatia:
3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us out of the present evil age, in keeping with the will of our God and Father,
5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
6 It amazes me that you are so soon moving away from the one who called you in the grace of Christ, over to a different gospel,
7 which is no other gospel at all; it is only that certain people are stirring you up and want to overturn the gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we ourselves or an angel out of heaven should proclaim to you a gospel at odds with what we proclaimed to you, may he be accursed.
9 We have said it before, and now I say it once more: if anyone proclaims to you a gospel at odds with what you received, may he be accursed.
10 Is it men, then, that I am now trying to win over, or God? Or am I looking to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would be no servant of Christ.
11 Now I make known to you, brothers, concerning the gospel proclaimed by me, that it is not of human making.
12 For I myself did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it; it came by revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 You have heard, of course, how I once conducted myself in Judaism: how beyond all measure I kept persecuting the church of God and was laying it waste;
14 and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, being far more zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me through his grace,
16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not at once take counsel with flesh and blood,
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; instead I went off into Arabia, and then went back again to Damascus.
18 Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days.
19 Of the other apostles I saw no one, except James the brother of the Lord.
20 Now as for what I am writing to you, look, before God, I am not lying.
21 Afterward I came into the districts of Syria and Cilicia.
22 And I was not known by sight to the churches of Judea that were in Christ;
23 they were only hearing, "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once ravaged."
24 And they were glorifying God because of me.