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Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Paul Defends His Ministry</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but <i>I received it</i> through a revelation of Jesus Christ. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it; <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>But when God, who had set me apart <i>even</i> from my mothers womb and called me through His grace, was pleased <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>But I did not see any other of the apostles except James, the Lords brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>(Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>I was <i>still</i> unknown by sight to the churches of Judea which were in Christ; <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>but only, they kept hearing, He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/galatians/1-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>And they were glorifying God because of me. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/galatians/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />which is not another gospel only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/galatians/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Which is not another, only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/galatians/1.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />which is not another one; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/galatians/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />which is not another gospel: only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/galatians/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Which is not another; but there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/galatians/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />For other "Good News" there is none; but there are some persons who are troubling you, and are seeking to distort the Good News concerning Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/galatians/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/galatians/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_37_1891/our_manifesto.htm">Our Manifesto</a><br></span><span class="snippet">TO ME it is a pitiful sight to see Paul defending himself as an apostle; and doing this, not against the gainsaying world, but against cold-hearted members of the church. They said that he was not truly an apostle, for he had not seen the Lord; and they uttered a great many other things derogatory to him. To maintain his claim to the apostleship, he was driven to commence his epistles with "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ," though his work was a self-evident proof of his call. If, after God has <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_37_1891/our_manifesto.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 37: 1891</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lardner/a_vindication_of_three_of_our_blessed_saviours_miracles/section_v_answer_to_mr.htm">Answer to Mr. W's Fifth Objection. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">5. The consideration that none of these raised persons did or could, after the return to their bodies, tell any tales of their separate existence; otherwise the Evangelists had not been silent in this main point, &c. p. 32. None of these persons, Mr. W. says, told any tales of their separate existence. So I suppose with him. As for the two first: How should they? being only, as Mr. W. says, an insignificant boy and girl, of twelve years of age, or thereabouts. Or if they did, the Evangelists were <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lardner/a_vindication_of_three_of_our_blessed_saviours_miracles/section_v_answer_to_mr.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Nathaniel Lardner—</span><span class="citation2">A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour's Miracles</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/denney/the_death_of_christ/chapter_3_the_epistles_of.htm">The Epistles of St. Paul</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHEN we pass from primitive Christian preaching to the epistles of St. Paul, we are embarrassed not by the scantiness but by the abundance of our materials. It is not possible to argue that the death of Christ has less than a central, or rather than the central and fundamental place, in the apostle's gospel. But before proceeding to investigate more closely the significance he assigns to it, there are some preliminary considerations to which it is necessary to attend. Attempts have often been made, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/denney/the_death_of_christ/chapter_3_the_epistles_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">James Denney—</span><span class="citation2">The Death of Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/renan/the_life_of_jesus/chapter_xviii_institutions_of_jesus.htm">Institutions of Jesus. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">That Jesus was never entirely absorbed in his apocalyptic ideas is proved, moreover, by the fact that at the very time he was most preoccupied with them, he laid with rare forethought the foundation of a church destined to endure. It is scarcely possible to doubt that he himself chose from among his disciples those who were pre-eminently called the "apostles," or the "twelve," since on the day after his death we find them forming a distinct body, and filling up by election the vacancies that had <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/renan/the_life_of_jesus/chapter_xviii_institutions_of_jesus.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernest Renan—</span><span class="citation2">The Life of Jesus</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lawrence/the_practice_of_the_presence_of_god/fourth_conversation.htm">Fourth Conversation</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The manner of going to God. * Hearty renunciation. * Prayer and praise prevent discouragement. * Sanctification in common business. * Prayer and the presence of God. * The whole substance of religion. * Self-estimation * Further personal experience. He discoursed with me very frequently, and with great openness of heart, concerning his manner of going to GOD, whereof some part is related already. He told me, that all consists in one hearty renunciation of everything which we are sensible does not <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lawrence/the_practice_of_the_presence_of_god/fourth_conversation.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Brother Lawrence—</span><span class="citation2">The Practice of the Presence of God</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/vincent/the_commonitory_of_vincent_of_lerins/exposition_of_st_pauls_words.htm">Exposition of St. Paul's Words, Gal. I. 8. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Exposition of St. Paul's Words, Gal. i. 8. [21.] When therefore certain of this sort wandering about provinces and cities, and carrying with them their venal errors, had found their way to Galatia, and when the Galatians, on hearing them, nauseating the truth, and vomiting up the manna of Apostolic and Catholic doctrine, were delighted with the garbage of heretical novelty, the apostle putting in exercise the authority of his office, delivered his sentence with the utmost severity, "Though we," he <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/vincent/the_commonitory_of_vincent_of_lerins/exposition_of_st_pauls_words.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Vincent of Lérins—</span><span class="citation2">The COMMONITORY OF Vincent of Lérins</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and_judas_iscariot/a_reasonable_service.htm">A Reasonable Service</a><br></span><span class="snippet">TEXT: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."--Romans 12:1. There is perhaps no chapter in the New Testament, certainly none in this epistle, with which we are more familiar than this one which is introduced by the text; and yet, however familiar we may be with the statements, if we read them carefully and study them honestly they must always come to us not only in the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and_judas_iscariot/a_reasonable_service.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. Wilbur Chapman—</span><span class="citation2">And Judas Iscariot</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_vii/sermon_iv_the_praise_of.htm">The Praise of Men. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"They loved the praise of men more than the praise of God."--John xii. 43. This is spoken of the chief rulers of the Jews, who, though they believed in Christ's Divine mission, were afraid to confess Him, lest they should incur temporal loss and shame from the Pharisees. The censure passed by St. John on these persons is too often applicable to Christians at the present day; perhaps, indeed, there is no one among us who has not at some time or other fallen under it. We love the good opinion <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_vii/sermon_iv_the_praise_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xv_sudden_conversions.htm">Sudden Conversions. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"By the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain."--1 Cor. xv. 10. We can hardly conceive that grace, such as that given to the great Apostle who speaks in the text, would have been given in vain; that is, we should not expect that it would have been given, had it been foreseen and designed by the Almighty Giver that it would have been in vain. By which I do not mean, of course, to deny that God's gifts are oftentimes abused and wasted by man, which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xv_sudden_conversions.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_lying/section_43_so_great_blindness.htm">So Great Blindness, Moreover, Hath Occupied Men's Minds...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">43. So great blindness, moreover, hath occupied men's minds, that to them it is too little if we pronounce some lies not to be sins; but they must needs pronounce it to be sin in some things if we refuse to lie: and to such a pass have they been brought by defending lying, that even that first kind which is of all the most abominably wicked they pronounce to have been used by the Apostle Paul. For in the Epistle to the Galatians, written as it was, like the rest, for doctrine of religion and piety, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_lying/section_43_so_great_blindness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">On Lying</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_4_travelling_in_palestineroads.htm">Travelling in Palestine --Roads, Inns, Hospitality, Custom-House Officers, Taxation, Publicans</a><br></span><span class="snippet">It was the very busiest road in Palestine, on which the publican Levi Matthew sat at the receipt of "custom," when our Lord called him to the fellowship of the Gospel, and he then made that great feast to which he invited his fellow-publicans, that they also might see and hear Him in Whom he had found life and peace (Luke 5:29). For, it was the only truly international road of all those which passed through Palestine; indeed, it formed one of the great highways of the world's commerce. At the time <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_4_travelling_in_palestineroads.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/galatians/1-7.htm">Galatians 1:7 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/galatians/1-7.htm">Galatians 1:7 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/galatians/1-7.htm">Galatians 1:7 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/galatians/1-7.htm">Galatians 1:7 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/galatians/1-7.htm">Galatians 1:7 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/galatians/1-7.htm">Galatians 1:7 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/galatians/1-7.htm">Galatians 1:7 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../galatians/1-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Galatians 1:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Galatians 1:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../galatians/1-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Galatians 1:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Galatians 1:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/galatians/1-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>