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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Galatians 1 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/galatians/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/galatians/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Galatians 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_corinthians/13.htm" title="2 Corinthians 13">◄</a> Galatians 1 <a href="../galatians/2.htm" title="Galatians 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/galatians/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Greetings from Paul</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>All the brothers and sisters<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> here join me in sending this letter to the churches of Galatia.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>May God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> give you grace and peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.</p><p class="hdg">There Is Only One Good News</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I say again what we have said before: If anyone preaches any other Good News than the one you welcomed, let that person be cursed.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.</p><p class="hdg">Paul’s Message Comes from Christ</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You know what I was like when I followed the Jewish religion—how I violently persecuted God’s church. I did my best to destroy it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>to reveal his Son to me<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> so that I would proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles.</p><p class="reg">When this happened, I did not rush out to consult with any human being.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to consult with those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went away into Arabia, and later I returned to the city of Damascus.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then three years later I went to Jerusalem to get to know Peter,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> and I stayed with him for fifteen days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The only other apostle I met at that time was James, the Lord’s brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I declare before God that what I am writing to you is not a lie.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>After that visit I went north into the provinces of Syria and Cilicia. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And still the churches in Christ that are in Judea didn’t know me personally. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>All they knew was that people were saying, “The one who used to persecute us is now preaching the very faith he tried to destroy!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And they praised God because of me.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:2 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">brothers;</span><span class="ft"> also in 1:11.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:6 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">through loving mercy.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">by the revelation of Jesus Christ.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:16a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">in me.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:16b </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">with flesh and blood.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:18 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Cephas.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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