The Message Bible MSG
The Latin Vulgate VUL
1 I, Paul, and my companions in faith here, send greetings to the Galatian churches. My authority for writing to you does not come from any popular vote of the people, nor does it come through the appointment of some human higher-up. It comes directly from Jesus the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead. I'm God-commissioned.
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Paulus apostolus non ab hominibus neque per hominem sed per Iesum Christum et Deum Patrem qui suscitavit eum a mortuis
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et qui mecum sunt omnes fratres ecclesiis Galatiae
3 So I greet you with the great words, grace and peace!
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gratia vobis et pax a Deo Patre et Domino nostro Iesu Christo
4 We know the meaning of those words because Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we're in by offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins. God's plan is that we all experience that rescue.
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qui dedit semet ipsum pro peccatis nostris ut eriperet nos de praesenti saeculo nequam secundum voluntatem Dei et Patris nostri
5 Glory to God forever! Oh, yes!
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cui est gloria in saecula saeculorum amen
6 I can't believe your fickleness - how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing a variant message!
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miror quod sic tam cito transferimini ab eo qui vos vocavit in gratiam Christi in aliud evangelium
7 It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God. Those who are provoking this agitation among you are turning the Message of Christ on its head.
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quod non est aliud nisi sunt aliqui qui vos conturbant et volunt convertere evangelium Christi
8 Let me be blunt: If one of us - even if an angel from heaven! - were to preach something other than what we preached originally, let him be cursed.
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sed licet nos aut angelus de caelo evangelizet vobis praeterquam quod evangelizavimus vobis anathema sit
9 I said it once; I'll say it again: If anyone, regardless of reputation or credentials, preaches something other than what you received originally, let him be cursed.
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sicut praediximus et nunc iterum dico si quis vobis evangelizaverit praeter id quod accepistis anathema sit
10 Do you think I speak this strongly in order to manipulate crowds? Or curry favor with God? Or get popular applause? If my goal was popularity, I wouldn't bother being Christ's slave.
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modo enim hominibus suadeo aut Deo aut quaero hominibus placere si adhuc hominibus placerem Christi servus non essem
11 Know this - I am most emphatic here, friends - this great Message I delivered to you is not mere human optimism.
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notum enim vobis facio fratres evangelium quod evangelizatum est a me quia non est secundum hominem
12 I didn't receive it through the traditions, and I wasn't taught it in some school. I got it straight from God, received the Message directly from Jesus Christ.
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neque enim ego ab homine accepi illud neque didici sed per revelationem Iesu Christi
13 I'm sure that you've heard the story of my earlier life when I lived in the Jewish way. In those days I went all out in persecuting God's church. I was systematically destroying it.
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audistis enim conversationem meam aliquando in iudaismo quoniam supra modum persequebar ecclesiam Dei et expugnabam illam
14 I was so enthusiastic about the traditions of my ancestors that I advanced head and shoulders above my peers in my career.
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et proficiebam in iudaismo supra multos coetaneos in genere meo abundantius aemulator existens paternarum mearum traditionum
15 Even then God had designs on me. Why, when I was still in my mother's womb he chose and called me out of sheer generosity!
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cum autem placuit ei qui me segregavit de utero matris meae et vocavit per gratiam suam
16 Now he has intervened and revealed his Son to me so that I might joyfully tell non-Jews about him.
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ut revelaret Filium suum in me ut evangelizarem illum in gentibus continuo non adquievi carni et sanguini
17 and without going up to Jerusalem to confer with those who were apostles long before I was - I got away to Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus,
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neque veni Hierosolyma ad antecessores meos apostolos sed abii in Arabiam et iterum reversus sum Damascum
18 but it was three years before I went up to Jerusalem to compare stories with Peter. I was there only fifteen days - but what days they were!
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deinde post annos tres veni Hierosolyma videre Petrum et mansi apud eum diebus quindecim
19 Except for our Master's brother James, I saw no other apostles.
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alium autem apostolorum vidi neminem nisi Iacobum fratrem Domini
20 (I'm telling you the absolute truth in this.)
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quae autem scribo vobis ecce coram Deo quia non mentior
21 Then I began my ministry in the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
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deinde veni in partes Syriae et Ciliciae
22 After all that time and activity I was still unknown by face among the Christian churches in Judea.
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eram autem ignotus facie ecclesiis Iudaeae quae erant in Christo
23 There was only this report: "That man who once persecuted us is now preaching the very message he used to try to destroy."
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tantum autem auditum habebant quoniam qui persequebatur nos aliquando nunc evangelizat fidem quam aliquando expugnabat
24 Their response was to recognize and worship God because of me!
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et in me clarificabant Deum
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
The Latin Vulgate is in the public domain.