Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁶ I’m astonished that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you by grace, and going after another gospel— ⁷ not that it is another gospel, it’s just that there are some people stirring up trouble for you and wanting to pervert the gospel of the Messiah. ⁸ But even if we—or an angel from heaven!—should announce a gospel other than the one we announced to you, let such a person be accursed. ⁹ I said it before and I now say it again: if anyone offers you a gospel other than the one you received, let that person be accursed.

Paul’s conversion and call

¹⁰ Well now . . . does that sound as though I’m trying to make up to people—or to God? Or that I’m trying to curry favor with people? If I were still pleasing people, I wouldn’t be a slave of the Messiah.

¹¹ You see, brothers and sisters, let me make it clear to you: the gospel announced by me is not a mere human invention. ¹² I didn’t receive it from human beings, nor was I taught it; it came through an unveiling of Jesus the Messiah.