| Holman Christian Standard Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1Paul, an apostle--not from men or by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead-- | 1This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead. |
| 2and all the brothers who are with me: To the churches of Galatia. | 2All the brothers and sisters here join me in sending this letter to the churches of Galatia. |
| 3Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, | 3May God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. |
| 4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father. | 4Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live. |
| 5To whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. | 5All glory to God forever and ever! Amen. There Is Only One Good News |
| 6I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from Him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- | 6I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News |
| 7not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to change the good news about the Messiah. | 7but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ. |
| 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel other than what we have preached to you, a curse be on him! | 8Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you. |
| 9As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him! | 9I say again what we have said before: If anyone preaches any other Good News than the one you welcomed, let that person be cursed. |
| 10For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ. | 10Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant. Paul’s Message Comes from Christ |
| 11Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not based on human thought. | 11Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. |
| 12For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation from Jesus Christ. | 12I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ. |
| 13For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God's church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it. | 13You know what I was like when I followed the Jewish religion—how I violently persecuted God’s church. I did my best to destroy it. |
| 14I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. | 14I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors. |
| 15But when God, who from my birth set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased | 15But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him |
| 16to reveal His Son in me, so that I could preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone. | 16to reveal his Son to me so that I would proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles. When this happened, I did not rush out to consult with any human being. |
| 17I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus. | 17Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to consult with those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went away into Arabia, and later I returned to the city of Damascus. |
| 18Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas, and I stayed with him 15 days. | 18Then three years later I went to Jerusalem to get to know Peter, and I stayed with him for fifteen days. |
| 19But I didn't see any of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother. | 19The only other apostle I met at that time was James, the Lord’s brother. |
| 20Now I am not lying in what I write to you. God is my witness. | 20I declare before God that what I am writing to you is not a lie. |
| 21Afterward, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. | 21After that visit I went north into the provinces of Syria and Cilicia. |
| 22I remained personally unknown to the Judean churches in Christ; | 22And still the churches in Christ that are in Judea didn’t know me personally. |
| 23they simply kept hearing: "He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy." | 23All they knew was that people were saying, “The one who used to persecute us is now preaching the very faith he tried to destroy!” |
| 24And they glorified God because of me. | 24And they praised God because of me. |
| Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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