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\v 1 This is Paul the apostle. I am not an apostle from men nor through a man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.
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\v 2 With all the brothers with me, I am writing to the churches of Galatia.
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\v 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
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\v 4 who gave himself for our sins so that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
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\v 5 To him be the glory for ever and ever.
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\v 6 I am amazed that you are turning so quickly to a different gospel. I am amazed that you are turning away from him who called you by the grace of Christ.
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\v 7 There is no other gospel, but there are some men who cause you trouble and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
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\v 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel other than the one we proclaimed to you, he should be cursed.
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\v 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, "If someone proclaims to you a gospel other than the one you accepted, he should be cursed."
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\v 10 For am I now seeking the approval of men or God? Am I seeking to please men? If I am still trying to please men, I am not a servant of Christ.
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\v 11 For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I proclaimed is not from mere humans.
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\v 12 I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it. Instead, it was by revelation of Jesus Christ to me.
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\v 13 You have heard about my former life in Judaism, how I was violently persecuting the church of God beyond measure and devastating it.
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\v 14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my fellow Jews. I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
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\v 15 But God was pleased to choose me from my mother's womb. He called me through his grace
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\v 16 to reveal his Son in me, so that I would proclaim him among the Gentiles. I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood
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\v 17 and I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me. Instead I went to Arabia and then returned to Damascus.
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\v 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.
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\v 19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.
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\v 20 Look, before God, I am not lying in what I write to you.
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\v 21 Then I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
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\v 22 I was still not known by sight to the churches of Judea that were in Christ,
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\v 23 but they were only hearing, "He who once was persecuting us now proclaims the faith that he had been destroying."
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\v 24 They were glorifying God because of me.
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