Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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I.—Introduction.
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1 To the Churches in Galatia,
From Paul, an Apostle whose commission is not
from men and is given, not by man, but by Jesus Christ
and God the Father who raised him from the dead;
2 AND FROM all the Brothers here.
3 May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you
and give you peace. For Christ, to rescue us from this
present wicked age,
4 gave himself for our sins, in accordance
with the will of our God and Father,
5 to whom be
ascribed all glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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6 I am astonished at your so soon deserting him,
who called you through the love of Christ,
for a different ‘Good News,’
7 which is really no
Good News at all. But then, I know that there are people
who are harassing you, and who want to pervert the Good
News of the Christ.
8 Yet even if we—or if an angel from
Heaven were to tell you any other ‘Good News’ than that
which we told you, may he be accursed!
9 We have said it
before, and I repeat it now—If any one tells you a ‘Good
News’ other than that which you received, may he be accursed!
10 Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate men, or God? Am I
seeking to please men? If I were still trying to please men,
I should not be a servant of Christ.
II.—The Independence of the Apostle's Gospel.
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11 I would remind you, Brothers, that the Good
News which I told is no mere human invention.
12 I, at least, did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but
it came to me through a revelation made by Jesus Christ.
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13 You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I
was devoted to Judaism—how I persecuted the
Church of God to an extent beyond belief, and made havoc of it,
and how,
14 in my devotion to Judaism, I surpassed many of my
contemporaries among my own people in my intense earnestness
in upholding the traditions of my ancestors. ⪆⪆
15 But
when God, who had set me apart even before my birth,
and who called me by his love, note
16 saw fit to reveal his Son
in me, so that I might tell the Good News of him among
the Gentiles, then at once, instead of consulting any human
being,
17 or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who were
Apostles before me, I went into Arabia, and came back again
to Damascus. ⪆⪆
18 Three years afterwards I went up to
Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Peter, and I stayed
a fortnight with him.
19 I did not, however, see any other
Apostle, except James, the Master's brother.
20 (As to what I
am now writing to you, I call God to witness that I am speaking
the truth).
21 Afterwards I went to the districts of Syria and
Cilicia.
22 But I was still unknown even by sight to the Christian
Churches in Judaea;
23 all that they had heard was—‘The man who
once persecuted us is now telling the Good News of the very
Faith of which he once made havoc.’
24 And they praised God
on my account. ⪆⪆
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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