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New American Standard Bible 2020

Galatians 1:6-24

6I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting 1Him who called you 2by the grace of Christ, for a 3different gospel, 7which is not just another account; but there are some who are 4disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we, or 5an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be 67accursed! 9As we 8have said before, even now I say again: 9if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be 1011accursed!

10For am I now 12seeking the favor of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a 13bond-servant of Christ.

11For 14I would have you know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel which was preached by me is 15not 16of human invention. 12For 17I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a 18revelation of Jesus Christ.

13For you have heard of 19my former way of life in Judaism, how I 20used to persecute 21the church of God beyond measure and 22tried to destroy it; 14and I 23was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my 24countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my 25ancestral traditions. 15But when 26He who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and 27called me through His grace was pleased 16to reveal His Son in me so that I might 28preach Him among the Gentiles, 29I did not immediately consult with 3031flesh and blood, 1732nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to 33Damascus.

18Then 34three years later I went up 35to Jerusalem to 36become acquainted with 3738Cephas, and stayed with him for fifteen days. 19But I did not see another one of the apostles except 3940James, the Lord’s brother. 20(Now in what I am writing to you, 41I assure you 42before God that I am not lying.) 21Then 43I went into the regions of 44Syria and 45Cilicia. 22I was still unknown by 46sight to 47the churches of Judea which are 48in Christ; 23but they only kept hearing, “The man who once persecuted us is now preaching 49the faith which he once 50tried to destroy.” 24And they 51were glorifying God 52because of me.

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Notes

  1. 1. Galatians 1:6 Rom 8:28; Gal 1:15; 5:8 ↩
  2. 2. Galatians 1:6 Lit in ↩
  3. 3. Galatians 1:6 2 Cor 11:4; Gal 1:7, 11; 2:2, 7; 5:14; 1 Tim 1:3 ↩
  4. 4. Galatians 1:7 Acts 15:24; Gal 5:10 ↩
  5. 5. Galatians 1:8 2 Cor 11:14 ↩
  6. 6. Galatians 1:8 Gr anathema ↩
  7. 7. Galatians 1:8 Rom 9:3 ↩
  8. 8. Galatians 1:9 Acts 18:23 ↩
  9. 9. Galatians 1:9 Rom 16:17 ↩
  10. 10. Galatians 1:9 Gr anathema ↩
  11. 11. Galatians 1:9 Rom 9:3 ↩
  12. 12. Galatians 1:10 1 Cor 10:33; 1 Thess 2:4 ↩
  13. 13. Galatians 1:10 Rom 1:1; Phil 1:1 ↩
  14. 14. Galatians 1:11 Rom 2:16; 1 Cor 15:1 ↩
  15. 15. Galatians 1:11 1 Cor 3:4; 9:8 ↩
  16. 16. Galatians 1:11 Lit according to man ↩
  17. 17. Galatians 1:12 1 Cor 11:23; Gal 1:1 ↩
  18. 18. Galatians 1:12 1 Cor 2:10; 2 Cor 12:1; Gal 1:16; 2:2 ↩
  19. 19. Galatians 1:13 Acts 26:4f ↩
  20. 20. Galatians 1:13 Acts 8:3; 22:4, 5 ↩
  21. 21. Galatians 1:13 1 Cor 10:32 ↩
  22. 22. Galatians 1:13 Acts 9:21 ↩
  23. 23. Galatians 1:14 Acts 22:3 ↩
  24. 24. Galatians 1:14 Lit race ↩
  25. 25. Galatians 1:14 Jer 9:14; Matt 15:2; Mark 7:3; Col 2:8 ↩
  26. 26. Galatians 1:15 One early ms God who ↩
  27. 27. Galatians 1:15 Is 49:1, 5; Jer 1:5; Acts 9:15; Rom 1:1; Gal 1:6 ↩
  28. 28. Galatians 1:16 Acts 9:15; Gal 2:9 ↩
  29. 29. Galatians 1:16 Acts 9:20 ↩
  30. 30. Galatians 1:16 I.e., people ↩
  31. 31. Galatians 1:16 Matt 16:17 ↩
  32. 32. Galatians 1:17 Acts 9:19-22 ↩
  33. 33. Galatians 1:17 Acts 9:2 ↩
  34. 34. Galatians 1:18 Acts 9:22f ↩
  35. 35. Galatians 1:18 Acts 9:26 ↩
  36. 36. Galatians 1:18 Or visit ↩
  37. 37. Galatians 1:18 I.e., Peter ↩
  38. 38. Galatians 1:18 John 1:42; Gal 2:9, 11, 14 ↩
  39. 39. Galatians 1:19 Or Jacob ↩
  40. 40. Galatians 1:19 Matt 12:46; Acts 12:17 ↩
  41. 41. Galatians 1:20 Lit behold before God ↩
  42. 42. Galatians 1:20 Rom 9:1; 2 Cor 1:23; 11:31 ↩
  43. 43. Galatians 1:21 Acts 9:30 ↩
  44. 44. Galatians 1:21 Acts 15:23, 41 ↩
  45. 45. Galatians 1:21 Acts 6:9 ↩
  46. 46. Galatians 1:22 Lit face ↩
  47. 47. Galatians 1:22 1 Cor 7:17; 1 Thess 2:14 ↩
  48. 48. Galatians 1:22 Rom 16:7 ↩
  49. 49. Galatians 1:23 Acts 6:7; Gal 6:10 ↩
  50. 50. Galatians 1:23 Acts 9:21 ↩
  51. 51. Galatians 1:24 Matt 9:8 ↩
  52. 52. Galatians 1:24 Lit in me ↩

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