Galatians 1: 1-24
“Paul, an apostle sent out not from human beings, nor by a man, but rather by Jesus the Anointed, and by God the Father who has raised him from the dead, and all the brother in who are with me, to the assemblies of Galicia; Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus the Anointed, who has given himself on behalf of our sins so that he might deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and father, to him be the glory and to the ages of the ages; amen.
I am astounded that you are so quickly defecting from the one who has called you by [the Anointed’s] grace, toward an alternative proclamation of “good tiddings”—Which is no alternative at all, except that there are certain persons who are agitating you, and seeking to reverse the Anointed’s good tidings. But, even if we or an angel out of Heaven should proclaim [to you] good tidings that differ from what you received, let him be accursed. As I have just said, and now say again, if anyone proclaims good tidings to you differing from what you received, let him be accursed.
For am I now prevailing upon human beings, or upon God? Or am I seeking to appease human beings? If I were still appeasing human beings, I should not have been a slave of the Anointed. For I apprise you, brothers, not the good tidings for claimed by me or not of human origin; for neither did I receive it from, nor was I thought it by, a human being—by the way, rather, as a revelation from Jesus the Anointed. For you have heard of my conduct when I was inside Judaism Colin that I persecuted and deceased Gods assembly with such extravagance, and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, being exorbitant in my zeal for my ancestral traditions. But when God, who had set me apart from my mother’s womb and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I may proclaim the good tidings regarding him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately take counsel with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who had been apostles before I had, but instead departed into Arabia, then return to Damascus. Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him for 15 days; but I saw no other of the Apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. And the things I write to you—See!—Before God, I am not lying. Then I entered the climes of Syria and Cilicia. And I was not now in my face to the assemblies and Judea that are in the Anointed. And they heard only that “the one formerly persecuting us now proclaims the faith that he besieged.” And they glorified God in me.