Paul’s Greeting to the Galatians 1 ENGPEV I am Paul, and this letter is from me. I’m sending this letter to you Christians in the churches in Galatia country. I am Jesus’s special worker, but it wasn’t a man that gave me the power to be Jesus’s special worker. It wasn’t any mob of people. It was Jesus Christ, and God our father. They sent me out to tell everybody about Jesus. You see, God is really powerful. People killed Jesus, but God made him alive again. 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 ENGPEV Your Christian friends that are with me here, they all say hello to you. BSB BSB: and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:
3 ENGPEV I’m asking God our father, and Jesus Christ our leader, to be good to you, and to make you feel happy and quiet inside yourselves. BSB BSB: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
4 ENGPEV You know, we all did bad things, but Jesus took the payback for all of us. He died instead of us, so now he can save us from this bad world that we live in. That is what God, our father, wanted him to do. 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 ENGPEV So everyone has to say that God is very good and very great. We have to keep on saying it all the time, for ever. Yes, that’s right. BSB BSB: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
No Other Gospel 9 ENGPEV I will say it again. If anyone teaches a story that is different from the story that we told you, the story that you believed, I want God to properly 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 ENGPEV I’m not trying to make people happy with me, I’m trying to make God happy with me. I work for Jesus Christ now, so it doesn’t matter to me if some people aren’t happy when I talk straight like this. 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 ENGPEV You see, my Christian friends, I want you to understand this. Jesus Christ himself told me that good news. No man or woman made up that message. It came from Jesus himself, and after Jesus told me that message, I told it to you. BSB BSB: For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached was not devised by man.
14 ENGPEV You see, our Jewish grand-fathers told us the way we Jewish people had to live, and I tried hard to live that way. I was becoming a better Jew than most of my mates, the other Jews that were the same age as me. BSB BSB: I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 ENGPEV But God was good to me, and he picked me to be his worker even before I was born. BSB BSB: But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
16 ENGPEV God wanted me to go and tell the message about Jesus to the people that are not Jews. So he showed Jesus to me, and he told me all about him. Then I believed in Jesus. God told me that message, so I didn’t ask anybody else about it. 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 ENGPEV I didn’t go to Jerusalem to talk to the men that were Jesus’s special workers before I was. Instead of that, I went straight away to the country called Arabia. Then later I went back to the city called Damascus. 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 ENGPEV What I’m writing to you now is true. And God knows that it is true. BSB BSB: I assure you before God that what I am writing to you is no lie.
21 ENGPEV Later I went north to the countries called Syria and Cilicia. BSB BSB: Later I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22 ENGPEV But back in Judea country the Christians there didn’t know me. BSB BSB: I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
23 ENGPEV They only heard people say, “The man that tried to stop us believing in Jesus Christ, the man that gave us bad trouble and hurt us, that man has changed, and now he is telling everyone to believe in Jesus Christ.” BSB BSB: They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
24 ENGPEV Those Christians heard that I changed, and they were happy, and they thanked God and said that he is really great. BSB BSB: And they glorified God because of me.
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