No Other Gospel

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called(A) you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel(B) which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion(C) and are trying to pervert(D) the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you,(E) let them be under God’s curse!(F) As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted,(G) let them be under God’s curse!

10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people?(H) If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Paul Called by God

11 I want you to know, brothers and sisters,(I) that the gospel I preached(J) is not of human origin. 12 I did not receive it from any man,(K) nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation(L) from Jesus Christ.(M)

13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism,(N) how intensely I persecuted the church of God(O) and tried to destroy it.(P) 14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous(Q) for the traditions of my fathers.(R) 15 But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb(S) and called me(T) by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles,(U) my immediate response was not to consult any human being.(V) 17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.(W)

18 Then after three years,(X) I went up to Jerusalem(Y) to get acquainted with Cephas[a] and stayed with him fifteen days. 19 I saw none of the other apostles—only James,(Z) the Lord’s brother. 20 I assure you before God(AA) that what I am writing you is no lie.(AB)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 1:18 That is, Peter

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