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Greetings to the Assemblies

Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the father, the one raising him from the dead,

²and [²the ⁴with ⁵me ¹all ³brethren], to the assemblies of Galatia.

³Favor to you and peace from God the father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴the one giving himself for our sins, so as to rescue us from out of the present [²age ¹wicked], according to the will [²God ³and ⁴father ¹of our],

⁵to whom be the glory in the eons of the eons. Amen.

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Good News

I marvel that so quickly you are transferred from your calling in favor of Christ, to another good news,

⁷which is not another; except there are some disturbing you, and wanting to convert the good news of the Christ.

⁸But even if we or an angel out of heaven should announce good news to you beyond which good news we announced to you, let him be anathema!

⁹As we described beforehand, and just now again I say, If anyone announces good news to you beyond what you took to yourselves, let him be anathema!

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Paul Recounts His Conversion

For now, [²men ¹do I comply with], or God? Or do I seek [²men ¹to please]? For if still [²men ¹I please], [⁴Christ's ⁵bondman ²not ³then ¹I was].

¹¹But I make known to you, brethren, the good news, the good news announced by me, that it is not according to man.

¹²[³not even ¹For ²I ⁶from ⁷man ⁴received ⁵it], nor was taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹³For you heard my behavior at some time or other in Judaism, that according to excess I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

¹⁴And I progressed in the Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, [²exceedingly more ³zealous ¹being ⁵of my fathers ⁴of the traditions].

¹⁵But when God thought well to separate me from out of the belly of my mother, and called me by his favor,

¹⁶to reveal his son in me, that I should announce him good news among the nations; immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood;

¹⁷nor went I up to Jerusalem to the [²before ³me ¹apostles]; but I went forth to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.

¹⁸Thereupon after [²years ¹three] I went up to Jerusalem to inquire of Peter, and I remained with him [²days ¹fifteen].

¹⁹But other apostles I did not see, except James the brother of the Lord.

²⁰And what things I write to you, behold, before God that I do not lie.

²¹Thereupon I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

²²And I was not known by face to the assemblies of Judea -- to the ones in Christ.

²³Only they were hearing that, The one persecuting us at one time, now announces good news -- the belief; which at one time he ravaged.

²⁴And they glorified [²in ³me ¹God].