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1 This letter is from Paul, a missionary of Yeshua, 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 and to rescue us out of this present, evil age according to the desire of God our father 5 who will be praised even through future ages. May it be so.
1:6 There’s only one good message
6 I’m astounded that you’ve all so quickly replaced the good message that you heard from the one who called you to the grace of the messiah. 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 out of 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 have 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 a worthy slave of the messiah.
1:11 Paul was commissioned directly by God
11 I’m letting you all 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 the messiah.
13 You’ve all heard about my previous behaviour when as a strict Jew, I was extreme in persecuting[ref] the assembly of God’s people and was trying to destroy them. 14 I was progressing in Judaism[ref] quicker than many of my contemporaries, being so much more zealous in observing our ancient traditions.
15 But God who’d planned this from even before I was born,[ref] because of his grace he called me 16 so that he could reveal his son through me and could preach the good message to non-Jews. I didn’t rush to get advice from others, 17 nor did I head to Yerusalem to consult with the ambassadors there that preceded me, but I went away to Arabia and then later returned to Damascus. 18 Then finally after three years I went to Yerusalem[ref] to get to know Peter, and stayed with him for just over two weeks. 19 I didn’t met any of the other ambassadors other than Yeshua’s brother, Yacob, 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 Syria and Cilicia. 22 The assemblies back in Yudea believing 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.