Thematic Bible
Galatians 1:1 (show verse)
Paul, an apostle sent not from men or by any man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead --
Galatians 1:2 (show verse)
and all the brothers who are here with me -- to the churches of Galatia:
Galatians 1:3 (show verse)
spiritual blessing and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
Galatians 1:4 (show verse)
who gave Himself for our sins, to save us from the present wicked world in accordance with the will of our God and Father;
Galatians 1:5 (show verse)
to Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Galatians 1:6 (show verse)
I am astonished that you are beginning so soon to turn away from Him who called you by the favor of Christ, to a different good news,
Galatians 1:7 (show verse)
which is not really another one; only there are certain people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of Christ upside down.
Galatians 1:8 (show verse)
But even if I or an angel from heaven preach a good news that is contrary to the one which I have already preached to you, a curse upon him!
Galatians 1:9 (show verse)
As I have said it before, so now I say it again, if anybody is preaching to you a good news that is contrary to the one which you have already received, a curse upon him!
Galatians 1:10 (show verse)
Am I now trying to win men's favor, or God's? Or, am I trying to be pleasing to men? If I were still trying to be pleasing to men, I would not be a slave of Christ at all.
Galatians 1:11 (show verse)
For I tell you, brothers, the good news which was preached by me is not a human message,
Galatians 1:12 (show verse)
for I did not get it from any man; I was not taught it, but I got it through a revelation given by Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:13 (show verse)
You have heard, indeed, of my former conduct as an adherent of the Jewish religion, how I kept on furiously persecuting the church of God, and tried to destroy it,
Galatians 1:14 (show verse)
and how I outstripped many of my own age among my people in my devotion to the Jewish religion, because I surpassed all others in my zeal for the traditions handed down by my forefathers.
Galatians 1:15 (show verse)
But when God, who had already set me apart from my birth, and had called me by His unmerited favor,
Galatians 1:16 (show verse)
chose to unveil His Son in me, so that I might preach the good news about Him among the heathen, at once, before I conferred with any human creatures,
Galatians 1:17 (show verse)
and before I went up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I retired to Arabia, and afterwards returned to Damascus.
Galatians 1:18 (show verse)
Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas, but I spent only two weeks with him;
Galatians 1:19 (show verse)
and not another single one of the apostles did I see, except James, the Lord's brother.
Galatians 1:20 (show verse)
In writing you this, I swear before God, I am telling you the solemn truth.
Galatians 1:21 (show verse)
After that I went into the districts of Syria and Cilicia.
Galatians 1:22 (show verse)
But I was personally unknown to the Christian churches in Judea;
Galatians 1:23 (show verse)
only they kept hearing people say, "Our former persecutor is now preaching as good news the faith which once he tried to destroy,"
Galatians 1:24 (show verse)
and they kept on praising God for me.