Galatians 1
1
Apostolic Greeting
1 Paul, an apostle, not appointed by human beings nor commissioned through human mediation, but commissioned through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the One who brought Him back from the dead,
2 together with all the brothers and sisters who are with me,
To the churches throughout Galatia:
3 May grace or undeserved favor and peace be given to you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who willingly handed Himself over on behalf of our sins in order to deliver us from the power of this present corrupt age, in harmony with the purposeful will of our God and Father,
5 to whom honor belongs without end. Amen.
Apostatizing to a Different “Gospel”
6 I am astonished that you are abandoning so quickly the One who summoned you by the gracious work of Christ and are turning toward something presented as a different gospel,
7 even though it does not truly exist as another message of good news. Rather, certain people are unsettling you and are attempting to distort the message concerning Christ.
8 But even if we ourselves, or a heavenly messenger, were to proclaim a message that contradicts the good news we previously announced to you, that one must be placed under divine judgment.
9 Just as we have stated before, so I repeat now: If anyone is announcing to you a message that stands in opposition to what you originally received, that one must be condemned.
10 For whose approval am I seeking now, that of people or that of God? Or am I attempting to satisfy people? If my aim were still to win human approval, I would not be serving Christ as His bondservant.
Paul’s Calling
11 For I want you to understand, brothers and sisters, that the good news I proclaimed does not originate from human reasoning.
12 I did not receive it from any person, nor was I instructed in it by human teachers; rather, it came through a direct unveiling of Jesus Christ.
13 You have heard about my former way of life within Judaism, how I relentlessly persecuted the church of God and sought to annihilate it.
14 I was progressing in Jewish tradition beyond many of my contemporaries among my people, driven by an intense devotion to the ancestral traditions passed down to me.
15 But when God, who had set me apart before my birth and summoned me through His grace, was pleased
16 to disclose His Son within me so that I might proclaim Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately seek counsel from mere human sources,
17 nor did I travel to Jerusalem to consult those who were apostles before me. Instead, I went away to Arabia and later returned to Damascus.
18 Then, after three years had passed, I went up to Jerusalem to become personally acquainted with Cephas, and I remained with him for fifteen days.
19 I did not see any of the other apostles, except James, the Lord’s brother.
20 In what I am writing to you, I affirm before God that I am speaking truthfully.
21 After that, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22 I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea that belong to Christ.
23 They only kept hearing it said, “The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the faith he formerly tried to destroy.”
24 And as a result, they were giving glory to God because of what He had done in me.
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Copyright © 2026 Michael Adeyemi Adegbola. This Scripture text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
