Greetings from Paul

1 Paul, an emissary (sent not from men or by man, but by Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead), ² and all the brothers with me.

To Messiah’s communities of Galatia:

³ Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and our Lord Yeshua the Messiah— ⁴ who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father— ⁵ to Him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

No Other Gospel

⁶ I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the One who called you by the grace of Messiah, to a different “good news”— ⁷ not that there is another, but only some who are confusing you and want to distort the Good News of Messiah. ⁸ But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should announce any “good news” to you other than what we have proclaimed to you, let that person be cursed! ⁹ As we have said before, so I now repeat: if anyone proclaims to you “good news” other than what you received, let that person be under a curse! ¹⁰ Am I now trying to win people’s approval, or God’s? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Messiah.

How Paul Was Sent Out

¹¹ Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the Good News proclaimed by me is not man-made. ¹² I did not receive it from any human, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Yeshua the Messiah.

¹³ For you have heard of my earlier behavior in Judaism—how I persecuted God’s community beyond measure and tried to destroy it. ¹⁴ I was even advancing within Judaism beyond many my own age among my people, being a more extreme observer of my fathers’ traditions. ¹⁵ But when God—who set me apart from birth and called me through His grace^[a]—was pleased ¹⁶ to reveal His Son to me so I would proclaim Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with any human. ¹⁷ I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who were emissaries before me, either. Instead I went away to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

¹⁸ Then three years later I went to Jerusalem to visit with Peter, and I stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ But I saw no other emissaries except Jacob, the Lord’s brother. ²⁰ (In what I’m writing you, before God, I do not lie.)

²¹ Then I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²² But I was personally unknown to Messiah’s communities of Judea; ²³ they only kept hearing, “The one who once persecuted us now proclaims the Good News he once tried to destroy!” ²⁴ So they were praising God because of me.