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Galatians 1

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 From: Sha'ul, an emissary - I received my commission not from human beings or through human mediation but through Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead - also from all the brothers with me

2 To: The Messianic communities in Galatia:

3 Grace and shalom to you from God our Father and from the Lord Yeshua the Messiah,

4 who gave himself for our sins, so that he might deliver us from the present evil world-system, in obedience to the will of God, our Father.

5 To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

6 I am astounded that you are so quick to remove yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah's grace, and turn to some other supposedly "Good News,"

7 which is not good news at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good News of the Messiah.

8 But even if we-or, for that matter, an angel from heaven!-were to announce to you some so-called "Good News" contrary to the Good News we did announce to you, let him be under a curse forever!

9 We said it before, and I say it again: if anyone announces "Good News" contrary to what you received, let him be under a curse forever!

10 Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God's approval! Or that I'm trying to cater to people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.

11 Furthermore, let me make clear to you, brothers, that the Good News as I proclaim it is not a human product;

12 because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it-it came through a direct revelation from Yeshua the Messiah.

13 For you have heard about my former way of life in [traditional] Judaism - how I did my best to persecute God's Messianic Community and destroy it;

14 and how, since I was more of a zealot for the traditions handed down by my forefathers than most Jews my age, I advanced in [traditional] Judaism more rapidly than they did.

15 But when God, who picked me out before I was born and called me by his grace, chose

16 to reveal his Son to me, so that I might announce him to the Gentiles, I did not consult anyone;

17 and I did not go up to Yerushalayim to see those who were emissaries before me. Instead, I immediately went off to Arabia and afterwards returned to Dammesek.

18 Not until three years later did I go up to Yerushalayim to make Kefa's acquaintance, and I stayed with him for two weeks,

19 but I did not see any of the other emissaries except Ya'akov the Lord's brother.

20 (Concerning these matters I am writing you about, I declare before God that I am not lying!)

21 Next I went to Syria and Cilicia;

22 but in Y'hudah, the Messianic congregations didn't even know what I looked like -

23 they were only hearing the report, "The one who used to persecute us now preaches the Good News of the faith he was formerly out to destroy";

24 and they praised God for me.

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Paul, an Apostle (not from men, and not through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who made him come back from the dead),

2 And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

4 Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

5 To whom be the glory for ever and ever. So be it.

6 I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

7 Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.

9 As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him.

10 Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

11 Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

12 For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

13 For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

14 And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

16 To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

17 And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.

18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.

19 But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother.

20 Now God is witness that the things which I am writing to you are true.

21 Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia.

22 And the churches of Judaea which were in Christ still had no knowledge of my face or person:

23 Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;

24 And they gave glory to God in me.