Paul’s Greeting to the Galatians 1 UDB I, Paul, am writing to my dear brothers and sisters in the province of Galatia. I am Paul, the apostle. No group of people made me an apostle, and God did not tell anybody to make me one. Instead, I am an apostle because Jesus Christ and God the Father have sent me as one—yes, God the Father, who made Christ live again after he had died! I and all the fellow believers who are here with me greet you all in the churches in the province of Galatia. 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—
3 UDB I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will kindly help you and give you peace. BSB BSB: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
4 UDB Christ gave his own life to pay the penalty for our sins, in order to rescue us from this world in which people act in such evil ways. He did this because God our Father wanted him to. 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 UDB Because that is true, let us now praise God forever and ever. BSB BSB: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
No Other Gospel 7 UDB The message that they preached to you was not the good news at all! Those people are upsetting you and they want to tell you another message about Christ that is not true. BSB BSB: which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
9 UDB As we have already told you, so now I say to you again that someone is telling you a form of the good news that he says is good, but it is not the same as what you believed. So I ask God that he condemn that person forever. 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 UDB I do not need people to like me, because it is God who approves of me. I am not trying to please people. If I were still trying to please people, then I would not really be serving 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 UDB 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. BSB BSB: For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached was not devised by man.
12 UDB I did not learn this good news from any ordinary human being, and no such person taught it to me. Instead, it was Jesus Christ himself who taught 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 UDB I honored God in the Jewish way more thoroughly than any other Jew my own age. I was very angry when I saw other Jews neglecting to obey the traditions that our ancestors had kept. BSB BSB: I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 UDB However, I was still in my mother's womb when God chose me to serve him, and he did this because it pleased him to do so. BSB BSB: But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
16 UDB He showed me that Jesus is his Son; he did this so that I would tell others the good news about his Son in regions where the Gentiles live. But I did not immediately go to any mere humans in order to understand that message better. 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 UDB And I did not immediately leave Damascus and go to Jerusalem to see the apostles there, the men who had become apostles before I became one. Instead, I went away into the region of Arabia, a region of wilderness. Later I returned once more to the city of 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 UDB God knows that what I am writing to you is completely true! BSB BSB: I assure you before God that what I am writing to you is no lie.
21 UDB 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 UDB At that time believers in the Christian congregations who were in the province of Judea still had never seen me. BSB BSB: I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
23 UDB They only heard others keep saying, "Paul, the one who in the past was doing violent things to us, is now proclaiming the same good news that we believe and that he had been trying to stop!" BSB BSB: They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
24 UDB So they kept praising God because of what had happened to me. BSB BSB: And they glorified God because of me.
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