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          DASV: Galatians 1    

1 From Paul, an apostle, sent not by a human source, neither
by means of human agency, but through Jesus Christ and God
the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead;
2 and all the brothers who are with me. To the Churches of
Galatia:
3 Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus
Christ,
4 who gave himself for our sins, in order to deliver us from
this evil world, according to the will of our God and Father,
5 to whom be the glory forever and ever, Amen.

6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting him who called
you by grace, and are turning to a different gospel,
7 which is really not another gospel at all, but a perversion
of the gospel of Christ, by those who want to deceive you.
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a different
gospel than the one which we first preached to you, let him be
accursed.
9 As we said before, so I say again, if any one preaches a gospel
to you different than what you have already received, let him be
accursed.
10 For am I looking for human approval or for God’s? Am I hoping
to please people? If I was still trying to please people, I
would not be a servant of Christ.

11 For I want you to know brothers, that the gospel which I preached
was not man-made.
12 For I did not get it from any human source, and I was not taught
it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 You have heard how I used to live in Judaism, how I violently
persecuted God’s church, and tried to destroy it.
14 I was advanced in Judaism beyond those of my same age, because I
was so zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when He, who set me apart before I was born and called me
by his grace,
16 was pleased to reveal his son to me, so that I could preach about
him to the Gentiles, I did not consult with anyone else,
17 or go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me,
but instead I went away to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.
18 Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas
and I stayed with him for fifteen days.
19 But I did not see any of the other apostles except James,
the brother of Jesus.
20 What I am writing to you before God, I am not lying.
21 Afterwards, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia,
22 and was still unknown personally by the churches of Judea,
which were in Christ,
23 but they received word saying "The one who used to persecute
us is now preaching the same faith he once tried to destroy."
24 And they praised God because of me.

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