Galatians 1

Greeting

1Paul, # 1:1 Ac 13:9 an apostle — not from men or by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father # 1:1 Mt 5:16; 6:1; 11:27; Jn 8:42 who raised him from the dead # 1:1 Ac 9:6; 20:24; 22:10–21; 26:16 — 2and all the brothers who are with me:

To the churches of Galatia. # 1:2 Ac 16:6; 18:23; 1Co 16:1; 2Tm 4:10; 1Pt 1:1

3Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord # 1:3 Other mss read God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4who gave himself for our sins # 1:4 Rm 6:23; Ti 2:14 to rescue us from this present evil age, # 1:4 Mt 20:28; Rm 4:25; 1Co 15:3; Gl 2:20 according to the will of our God and Father. # 1:4 Php 4:20; 1Th 1:3; 3:11,13; Heb 10:7; 1Pt 3:17; Rv 10:7 5To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

No Other Gospel

6I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called # 1:6 Col 3:15; 1Pt 1:15 you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel — 7not that there is another gospel, # 1:7 Ac 4:12; 1Co 3:11 but there are some # 1:7 Jd 4 who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel # 1:8 Gn 16:7; Mt 13:49; Lk 1:11; Ac 5:19; Rv 14:6 from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, # 1:8 Rm 15:20 a curse be on him! # 1:8 Or you, let him be condemned, or you, let him be condemned to hell; Gk anathema 9As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, # 1:9 Jd 3 a curse be on him!

10For am I now trying to persuade people, # 1:10 Or win the approval of people or God? # 1:10 1Th 2:4 Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

The Origin of Paul’s Gospel

11For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin. 12For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation # 1:12 1Pt 4:13 of Jesus Christ. # 1:12 1Co 11:23; 15:3

13For you have heard about my former way of life # 1:13 2Pt 3:11 in Judaism: # 1:13 Ac 8:1–9:2; 26:4; Php 3:5–6 I intensely persecuted # 1:13 Php 3:6; 2Tm 3:12 God’s church and tried to destroy it. 14I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. # 1:14 Mk 7:3 15But when God, who from my mother’s womb set me apart and called # 1:15 Mt 24:22; Col 3:15 me by his grace, was pleased 16to reveal his Son # 1:16 Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 in me, so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone. # 1:16 Lit flesh and blood 17I did not go up to Jerusalem # 1:17 Mt 23:37; Ac 8:1 to those who had become apostles # 1:17 Jd 17 before me; instead I went to Arabia # 1:17 Is 21:13; Jr 25:24; Ezk 27:21; Gl 4:25 and came back to Damascus. # 1:17 2Sm 8:5

18Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem # 1:18 Ac 9:26 to get to know Cephas, # 1:18 Other mss read Peter,# 1:18 Jn 1:42 and I stayed with him fifteen days. 19But I didn’t see any of the other apostles except James, # 1:19 Jd 1 the Lord’s brother. 20I declare in the sight of God: I am not lying in what I write to you.

21Afterward, I went to the regions of Syria # 1:21 Nm 23:7; Lk 2:2 and Cilicia. # 1:21 Ac 9:30; 11:25–26 22I remained personally unknown to the Judean churches that are in Christ. 23They simply kept hearing, “He who formerly persecuted # 1:23 Ac 8:1–3 us now preaches the faith # 1:23 Jd 3 he once tried to destroy.” 24And they glorified God because of me. # 1:24 Or in me

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Galatians 1

1From Sha'ul, a Shliach, not from Bnei Adam, nor through Bnei Adam, but through Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua and Hashem, Elohim Avinu, the One of whom [we say] Mechayyei Mesim Atah (Thou Revivest the Dead), even the Moshiach, 2And from all the Achim B'Moshiach with me; to the Kehillot of Galatia.

3Chen v'Chesed Hashem to you and Shalom Hashem from Elohim Avinu and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu, 4The one having made a matnat Elohim of himself, on behalf of chattoteynu (our sins), so that he might rescue us out of the Olam Hazeh [Yom Tzarah], this age, this present evil age, according to the ratzon Hashem (will of G-d), even Avinu, 5Lo hakavod l'olmei olamim. Omein.

6I am shocked that so quickly you are being turned from the One who granted you the kri'ah (calling), summoning you by the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of Moshiach. I am shocked that so quickly you are being turned from this to a different “Besuras HaGeulah.” 7Not that there is another, mind you! Except that there are some individuals disturbing and troubling you,#1:7 Ga 5:12 desiring to twist and pervert the Besuras HaGeulah#1:7 Isa 40:9; 60:6 of Moshiach. 8But even if we#1:8 Shlichim, emissaries of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach or a malach from Shomayim should pose as maggidim [for Moshiach] and make a hachrazah (proclamation) to you of a “Besuras HaGeulah” other than that Besuras HaGeulah which we preached to you, let such a one be ARUR HAISH#1:8 Josh 6:26 (Cursed is the man) and set under cherem (ban of destruction) and onesh Gehinnom (damnation). 9As we have previously said, and now again I say, if any one preaches a “Besuras HaGeulah” to you other than that which you received, let him be ARUR HAISH and be consigned to onesh Gehinnom.

10Am I now seeking the ishshur (approval) of Bnei Adam? Or the haskama (approval) of Hashem? Or am I seeking to be a man-pleaser? If [and this is not the case] I were still pleasing Bnei Adam, I would not have been the eved of Moshiach.

11For I mefarsem (make known) to you, Achim B'Moshiach, the Besuras HaGeulah having been preached by me, that it is not according to Bnei Adam; 12For neither did I receive it from Bnei Adam nor was I taught it, but no, it was through a chazon (revelation) of Moshiach Yehoshua. 13For you heard of my derech, my halakhah, my hitnahagut (conduct) in earlier times in Yahadut (Judaism), how I was to an extraordinary degree bringing redifah (persecution) upon the Kehillah of Hashem and was making havoc of it, 14And I was shtaig (working my way up, advancing, progressing) in Yahadut (Judaism) beyond many of my landsmen, being more abundantly machmir and a kannai (zealot) bekius for the minhagim, the Masorot haAvot, the kabbalah (oral tradition), the Torah Sheb'al Peh, the Halakhah of my Avot. 15But when Hashem was pleased, when it was the ratzon Hashem, Hashem being the One who separated me as kodesh KERA'ANI MIME'EI IMMI#1:15 Isa 49:1 (He called me from the womb of my mother) and granted me the kri'ah (calling), summoning me through the Chen v'Chesed of Hashem, 16To reveal His Zun fun der Oybershter in me, that I might preach Him among the Goyim, immediately, then, I did not consult with basar vadahm (flesh and blood), 17Nor did I go up to Yerushalayim to those who were Moshiachʼs Shlichim before me, but I went away hitbodedut into Arabia and again I returned to Damascus.

18Then, after shalosh shanim (three years),I went up to Yerushalayim to get acquainted with Kefa, and I stayed with him chamishah asar yamim (fifteen days). 19But other of the Moshiachʼs Shlichim I did not see except Ya'akov achi Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu.#1:19 T.N. Ya'akov and Sha'ul were both unbelievers before the appearance of the Moshiach to them after His histalkus — see 1C 15:7 20Now, what things I write to you, hinei, before Hashem I do not speak sheker. 21Next I went into the regions of Syria and of Cilicia, 22But I was unknown panim el panim by the Kehillot of Moshiach in Yehudah; 23Only they were hearing that “the one once bringing redifah (persecution) upon us is now preaching the#1:23 Messianic Orthodox Jewish Emunah which once he was pillaging.” 24And they were glorifying Hashem in#1:24 by means of me.

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