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Distortion of the Gospel
I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel,
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which is not just another account; but there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
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But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
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As we have said before, even now I say again: if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!
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Paul Defends His Ministry
For I would have you know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel which was preached by me is not of human invention.
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It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that somehow I might be running, or had run, in vain.
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But we did not yield in subjection to them, even for an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
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But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised
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But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?
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The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”
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but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;