< Galatians 1 >
1 Paul an apostle not from men nor through man but through Jesus Christ and God [the] Father the [One who] having raised Him out from [the] dead —
2 and the with me myself all brothers To the churches of Galatia:
3 Grace to you and peace from God Father of us and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ,
4 the [One who] having given Himself (for *NK+o) the sins of us, so that He may deliver us out of the age of which having come presently evil according to the will of the God and Father of us, (aiōn )
5 to whom [be] the glory to the ages of the ages, Amen. (aiōn )
6 I am astonished that so soon you are deserting from the [One who] having called you in [the] grace of Christ to a different gospel
7 which not is another, only except some there are who are troubling you and are desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we ourselves or an angel out of heaven (shall evangelise *NK+o) to you contrary to what we evangelised to you, accursed he should be.
9 As we have said before, even now again I say, if anyone [to] you is evangelising contrary to what you received, accursed he should be.
10 Presently for of men do I seek approval or God? Or do I seek men to please? if (for *k) yet men I were pleasing, of Christ a servant not then would I was being.
11 I make known (for *N+kO) to you, brothers, the gospel which having been evangelised by me that not it is according to man;
12 Neither for I myself from man received it (nor *NK+o) was I taught [it] but through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 You have heard of for my way of life former in Judaism that beyond exceeding measure I was persecuting the church of God and was destroying it;
14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in the countrymen of mine more abundantly zealous being of the fathers of mine traditions.
15 When however was pleased God the [One] having selected me from [the] womb of mother of mine and having called [me] through the grace of Him
16 to reveal the Son of Him in me myself, that I may evangelise Him among the Gentiles, immediately not I consulted with flesh and with blood,
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the before me apostles, but I went away into Arabia and again returned to Damascus.
18 Then after years three I went up to Jerusalem to make acquaintance with (Cephas *N+KO) and I remained with him days fifteen;
19 Other however of the apostles none I saw, only except James the brother of the Lord.
20 In what now I write to you, behold before God that not I lie.
21 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
22 I was then unknown by face to the churches of Judea that [are] in Christ,
23 Only however hearing they were that the [one] persecuting us formerly now is evangelising the faith which once he was destroying;
24 And they were glorifying in me myself God.
