{"id":1240,"date":"2025-01-27T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/galatians-1"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:19:08","slug":"galatians-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2025\/01\/27\/galatians-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Galatians 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gal 1:1  Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the One raising Him from the dead,<br \/>\nGal 1:2  and all the brothers with me, to the assemblies of Galatia.<br \/>\nGal 1:3  Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nGal 1:4  who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,<br \/>\nGal 1:5  to whom be the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.<br \/>\nGal 1:6  I wonder that you are so quickly turning back from the One having called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel,<br \/>\nGal 1:7  which is not another; only there are some troubling you, even determined to pervert the gospel of Christ.<br \/>\nGal 1:8  But even if we, or an angel out of Heaven, should preach a gospel to you beside the gospel we preached to you, let him be accursed.<br \/>\nGal 1:9  As we have said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel beside what you received, let him be accursed.<br \/>\nGal 1:10  For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a slave of Christ.<br \/>\nGal 1:11  And, brothers, I make known to you the gospel preached by me, that it is not according to man.<br \/>\nGal 1:12  For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nGal 1:13  For you heard my way of life when I was in Judaism, that with surpassing zeal I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.<br \/>\nGal 1:14  And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my ancestors.<br \/>\nGal 1:15  But when God was pleased, He having separated me from my mother&#8217;s belly, and having called me through His grace, Isa. 49:1<br \/>\nGal 1:16  to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood,<br \/>\nGal 1:17  nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.<br \/>\nGal 1:18  Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to learn from Peter and remained with him fifteen days.<br \/>\nGal 1:19  But I saw no other of the apostles except James the brother of the Lord.<br \/>\nGal 1:20  And what I write to you, behold, before God I do not lie.<br \/>\nGal 1:21  Then I went into the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,<br \/>\nGal 1:22  but I was not known by face to the assemblies of Judea in Christ.<br \/>\nGal 1:23  But only they were hearing that he who was persecuting us then, now preaches the gospel, the faith which he then ravaged;<br \/>\nGal 1:24  and they glorified God in me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gal 1:1 Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the One raising Him from the dead, Gal 1:2 and all the brothers with me, to the assemblies of Galatia. 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