¹From Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the father who raised him from the dead, ²and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia, ³grace to you, and peace, from God the father and Lord of ours, Jesus Christ, ⁴who gave himself for our sins, in order to deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and father, ⁵to whom may there be glory throughout the durations of the ages. Amen. ⁶I am astonished that you are so quickly switching from him who called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel, ⁷while there is no other, except that there are some who are troubling you and wishing to distort the gospel of Christ. ⁸But even if we or an angel from heaven preach a gospel to you contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. ⁹As we have said before, and I say again now, if anyone preaches a gospel to you contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed. ¹⁰For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I aim to please men? Well, if I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. ¹¹But I am making known to you, brothers, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man, ¹²for I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through Jesus Christ's revelation. ¹³For you have heard of my previous manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God wantonly and ravage it, ¹⁴and how I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries of my race, being exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. ¹⁵But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me through his grace, was pleased ¹⁶to reveal his son within me – in order that I should preach him among the Gentiles – I immediately made a point of not consulting with flesh and blood, ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who were before me, but I went away into Arabia and returned again to Damascus. ¹⁸Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to acquaint myself with Peter, and I remained with him for fifteen days, ¹⁹but I did not see any other of the apostles except James, the Lord's brother. ²⁰Now with respect to what I am writing to you, look, I swear before God that I am not lying. ²¹Then I went to the districts of Syria and Cilicia, ²²and I was unknown by sight to the churches of Judaea which are in Christ, ²³except that they kept hearing, “He who persecuted us at one time is now preaching the faith which previously he ravaged.” ²⁴And they glorified God because of me.