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This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
1 This letter is from Paulos, one of Yeshua’s (Jesus’; Grk. Yesus’) ambassadors, not chosen by people or any human desire, but chosen directly by Yeshua the messiah and God the father who raised Yeshua from the dead. 2 On behalf of all the believers here, I’m writing to the assemblies of believers in Galatia.
3 May you all experience the grace and peace that comes from God the father and our master Yeshua the messiah, 4 the one who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present, evil age, according to God our father’s desire—5 our father who’ll be praised even through future ages. That’s how it is.
6 I’m astounded that you people have so quickly replaced the good message that you heard from the one who called you to the messiah’s grace. You’ve replaced it with another narrative 7 which is not at all another good message, but rather comes from those who are confusing you and wanting to alter the actual good message about the messiah. 8 Even if either we ourselves or even a messenger from heaven were to preach a different ‘good message’ which disagrees with the good message that we first preached to you, then they should be cursed. 9 As we’ve previously said, and even now say it again: if anyone preaches a ‘good message’ to you that’s different from what you already heard, let that person be cursed.
10 Am I trying to please and persuade people or God? If I was still trying to please people, I wouldn’t be worthy to be one of the messiah’s slaves.
11 I’m letting you know, brothers and sisters, that the good message I proclaimed didn’t just come from human ideas. 12 It didn’t come from my ideas, nor was I taught it by some other person, but it was revealed to me by Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) the messiah.
13 Brothers and sisters, you’ve heard about my previous behaviour, when as a strict Yehudi (Jew), I was extreme in persecuting the assembly of God’s people, and was trying to destroy them.[ref] 14 I was progressing in Youdaismos quicker than many of my contemporaries, being so much more zealous in observing our ancient traditions.[ref]
15 But God, who’d planned this from even before I was born, called me,[ref] because of his grace, 16 so that he could reveal his son through me, and I could preach the good message to non-Jews. I didn’t rush to get advice from others, 17 nor did I head to Yerushalem (Jerusalem) to consult with the ambassadors there that preceded me, but I went away to Arav and then later returned to Damesek (Damascus). 18 Then finally, after three years, I went to Yerushalem to get to know Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros), and stayed with him for just over two weeks.[ref] 19 I didn’t meet any of the other ambassadors, other than Yeshua’s brother, Ya’akov (James; Grk. Yakobos), 20 and what I’m writing to you, I’m writing with God watching, so I’m not lying.
21 Then I went into the regions of Aram (Syria) and Kilikia. 22 The assemblies back in Yehudah (Judea) that believe in the messiah didn’t know me by sight, 23 but had only heard about me—that the person who’d once been persecuting them was now preaching the good message about the faith himself, 24 and they praised God because of what had happened to me.
