Galatians 1:15 - Compare All Versions
Galatians 1:13-16 MSG (The Message)
I’m sure that you’ve heard the story of my earlier life when I lived in the Jewish way. In those days I went all out in persecuting God’s church. I was systematically destroying it. I was so enthusiastic about the traditions of my ancestors that I advanced head and shoulders above my peers in my career. Even then God had his eye on me. Why, when I was still in my mother’s womb he chose and called me out of sheer generosity! Now he has intervened and revealed his Son to me so that I might joyfully tell non-Jews about him.
Galatians 1:15 KJV (King James Version)
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace
Galatians 1:15 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased
Galatians 1:15 NCV (New Century Version)
But God had special plans for me and set me apart for his work even before I was born. He called me through his grace
Galatians 1:15 ASV (American Standard Version)
But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace
Galatians 1:15 NIV (New International Version)
But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased
Galatians 1:15 NKJV (New King James Version)
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace
Galatians 1:15 AMP (Amplified Bible)
But when God, who had chosen me and set me apart before I was born, and called me through His grace, was pleased [Is 49:1; Jer 1:5]
Galatians 1:15 NLT (New Living Translation)
But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him
Galatians 1:15 TPT (The Passion Translation)
But then God called me by his grace, and chose me from my birth to be his.
Galatians 1:15 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace