Galatians, 1

1. From Paul, an apostle appointed not by human beings nor through any human being but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,

1. Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

2. and all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia.

2. And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

3. Grace and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ

3. Grace [be] to you and peace from God the Father, and [from] our Lord Jesus Christ,

4. who gave himself for our sins to liberate us from this present wicked world, in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

4. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

5. to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

5. To whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.

6. I am astonished that you are so promptly turning away from the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are going over to a different gospel-

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

7. not that it is another gospel; except that there are trouble-makers among you who are seeking to pervert the gospel of Christ.

7. Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8. But even if we ourselves or an angel from heaven preaches to you a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let God's curse be on him.

8. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9. I repeat again what we declared before: anyone who preaches to you a gospel other than the one you were first given is to be under God's curse.

9. As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

10. Whom am I trying to convince now, human beings or God? Am I trying to please human beings? If I were still doing that I should not be a servant of Christ.

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 servant of Christ.

11. Now I want to make it quite clear to you, brothers, about the gospel that was preached by me, that it was no human message.

11. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

12. It was not from any human being that I received it, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

12. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

13. You have surely heard how I lived in the past, within Judaism, and how there was simply no limit to the way I persecuted the Church of God in my attempts to destroy it;

13. For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

14. and how, in Judaism, I outstripped most of my Jewish contemporaries in my limitless enthusiasm for the traditions of my ancestors.

14. And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

15. But when God, who had set me apart from the time when I was in my mother's womb, called me through his grace and chose

15. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace,

16. to reveal his Son in me, so that I should preach him to the gentiles, I was in no hurry to confer with any human being,

16. To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

17. or to go up to Jerusalem to see those who were already apostles before me. Instead, I went off to Arabia, and later I came back to Damascus.

17. Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

18. Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to meet Cephas. I stayed fifteen days with him

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

19. but did not set eyes on any of the rest of the apostles, only James, the Lord's brother.

19. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

20. I swear before God that what I have written is the truth.

20. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

21. After that I went to places in Syria and Cilicia;

21. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

22. and was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judaea which are in Christ,

22. And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:

23. they simply kept hearing it said, 'The man once so eager to persecute us is now preaching the faith that he used to try to destroy,'

23. But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

24. and they gave glory to God for me.

24. And they glorified God in me.