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Amen.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">There Is No Other Gospel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>But even if we or an angel<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-33321b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>As we have said before, so now I repeat, if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Am I now seeking human approval, or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-33323c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> of Christ.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>For I want you to know, brothers and sisters,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-33324d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>But when God, who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace, was pleased </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>to reveal his Son to me,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-33329e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with any human being, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were already apostles before me, but I went away at once into Arabia, and afterwards I returned to Damascus.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>but I did not see any other apostle except James the Lord’s brother. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>and I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea that are in Christ; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>they only heard it said, “The one who formerly was persecuting us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>And they glorified God because of me.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Galatians 1:2">Galatians 1:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>all the brothers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Galatians 1:8">Galatians 1:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>a messenger</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Galatians 1:10">Galatians 1:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>slave</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Galatians 1:11">Galatians 1:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brothers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Galatians 1:16">Galatians 1:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>in me</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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