Paul’s Greeting to the Galatians 1 ENGT4T I , Paul, write this letter to you. I remind you that I am an apostle. That is not because a group of people appointed me , nor because a human being sent me to be an apostle . Instead, Jesus Christ and God our heavenly Father, who caused Jesus to become alive again after he died, have appointed and sent me to be an apostle .BSB BSB: Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead—
2 ENGT4T All the fellow believers who are here with me approve of this message that I am writing. I am sending this letter to the congregations that are in Galatia province . BSB BSB: and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:
3 ENGT4T I pray that God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ will kindly help you and enable you to have inner peace.BSB BSB: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
4 ENGT4T Christ offered himself as a sacrifice in order that he might remove the guilt for our sins. He did that in order that he might enable us to not do the evil things that people who do not know him do. He did this because God, who is our Father, wanted it. BSB BSB: who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
5 ENGT4T I pray that people will praise God forever. ◄May it be so!/Amen!►BSB BSB: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
No Other Gospel 7 ENGT4T Their message is not a true message. What is happening is that certain persons are confusing your minds . They are desiring to change the good message ◄that Christ revealed/about Christ► and are creating another message . BSB BSB: which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
9 ENGT4T As I told you previously, so now I tell you this once more: Someone is telling you what he says is a good message, but it is a message that is different from the good message that I gave you. So I appeal to God that he severely punish that person. BSB BSB: As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be under a curse!
Paul Preaches the Gospel 10 ENGT4T I said that because RHQ I do not desire that people approve me, contrary to what some have said about me . It is God whom I desire to approve me. Specifically, I do not say and do RHQ things just to please people. If it were still people whom I was trying to please, then I would not be one who willingly and completely serves Christ.BSB BSB: Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
11 ENGT4T My fellow believers, I want you to know that the message about Christ that I proclaim to people is not one that some person created/thought up . BSB BSB: For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached was not devised by man.
12 ENGT4T I did not receive this message from a human messenger , and no human being taught it to me. Instead, Jesus Christ revealed it to me. BSB BSB: I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
14 ENGT4T I practiced the Jewish religion more thoroughly than many other Jews who were my age practiced it. I much more enthusiastically tried to get others to obey the traditions that my ancestors kept . BSB BSB: I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 ENGT4T Nevertheless, before I was born, God ◄set me apart/selected me►. He chose me to live eternally , something that I did not deserve. BSB BSB: But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
16 ENGT4T He wanted me to know that Jesus is ◄his Son/the man who is also God►, so that I would tell others the message about him in regions where non-Jews live. But I did not immediately go to any human beings SYN in order to gain an understanding of that message. I received it directly from Christ! ! BSB BSB: to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,
17 ENGT4T I did not immediately leave Damascus and go to Jerusalem for that purpose to those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went away to Arabia region, a desert area . Later I returned once more to Damascus city . BSB BSB: nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who came before me, but I went into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.
20 ENGT4T God knows that what I am writing to you is completely true LIT ! BSB BSB: I assure you before God that what I am writing to you is no lie.
21 ENGT4T After I left Jerusalem , I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. BSB BSB: Later I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22 ENGT4T At that time, people in the Christian congregations that are in Judea province still had not met me SYN personally.BSB BSB: I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
23 ENGT4T They only heard others say about me repeatedly, “Paul , the one who was formerly doing harmful things to us, is now telling the same message which we believe and which formerly he was trying ◄to destroy/to cause people to stop believing►!” BSB BSB: They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
24 ENGT4T And they praised God because of what had happened to me. BSB BSB: And they glorified God because of me.
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