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Galatians 1.
1 Paul the apostle—not sent from people, nor because of any person,
but because of Christ Jesus, and God the Father who raised him from death—
2 and the brothers with me. To the Galatian churches:
3 Grace to you all, and peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus the Master.
4 He gave himself up for our sins, so he might pull us out of the existing evil age,
following the will of God our Father. 5 Honor him forever! Amen.
6 I’m stunned at how quickly you switched from Christ, who called you by grace, to another gospel.
7 There isn’t another.
If anyone is bothering you, wanting to warp Christ’s gospel, 8 whether us or a heavenly angel,
evangelizing you astray from what we evangelized you, it’s rubbish.
9 Just like we told you before, I’ll say it again:
If any one of you evangelizes astray from what you received, it’s rubbish.
10 Now either I persuade people for God, or I’m trying to suck up to people.
Yet if I’m sucking up to anyone, I’m no kind of slave for Christ.
11 Family, I proclaim to the gospel to you all.
The gospel which we proclaimed wasn’t a human one,
12 nor did I get it from a human, nor was I taught it.
Christ Jesus revealed it to me.
13 You all heard about the practices I once had in the Jewish religion—
that I was excessively persecuting God’s church, that I was destroying it.
14 I was advanced in the religion, ahead of many in my group, in my class.
I went beyond zealotry. I put my fathers’ traditions first.
15 When God, who’d separated me out of my mother’s womb, who graciously called me,
was delighted 16 to reveal his Son to me, so that I’d preach the gospel to gentiles,
I didn’t share this burden with flesh-and-blood people,
17 nor did I go to Jerusalem to the apostles over me.
Instead I went to Arabia, and then went back to Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went to Jerusalem to get Peter’s advice.
I stayed with him 15 days. 19 I saw the Master’s brother James.
No other apostles. 20 By God, what I write you is no lie.
21 After that, I went to the Syrian and Cilician provinces.
22 The Jewish Christian churches didn’t know my face;
23 they only heard their onetime prosecutor now preaches the gospel,
the faith which he once destroyed. 24 They were praising God about me.
Galatians 2.
1 Then 14 years later, I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, who took Titus with us.
2 I went up because of a revelation.
Privately, for their consideration, I shared with them the gospel I proclaim to the gentiles,
lest somehow I had run, or was running, in vain.
3 But not even Titus, the Greek with me, was obligated to be circumcised—
4 because of fake Christians, secretly brought in
to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so they could enslave us.
5 We didn’t obey them for an instant: The gospel’s truth can stay with you.
6 About those people who are thought important: Who are they?
They’re nothing important to me. God doesn’t care about appearances.
Those thought important bore no additional burdens for me.
7 On the contrary: They saw I’d been entrusted with presenting the gospel to the “foreskins,”
just as Peter to the circumcised—
8 for he who equipped Peter to be sent to the circumcised, equipped me for gentiles.
9 Recognizing the grace given to me, James, Peter, and John,
those recognized as pillars, gave Barnabas and me the right hand of relationship.
Thus we’d go to gentiles, and they to the circumcised.
10 They only requested we remember the poor—which I was quick to do.
11 When Peter came to Antioch, I publicly opposed him:
He’d been condemned, 12 because before certain people from James arrived, he was eating with gentiles.
After they came, he “set boundaries for himself”—out of fear of the circumcised.
13 The remaining Jews went along with him,
so much so that even Barnabas was dragged into the hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw their inconsistency to the gospel’s truth, I told Peter in front of everyone,
“If you Jews decided it was okay to live like gentiles, why are you obligated to Judaize others?”
15 We’re ethnic Jews, not gentile sinners,
16 who knew people aren’t set right by working the Law unless they trust Christ Jesus.
We trust Christ Jesus, because we’re set right by trust in Christ.
Not by working the Law, because working the Law won’t set any flesh right!
17 If we who seek to be found set right by Christ, and we’re sinners, is Christ a minister of sin?
Absolutely not. 18 If what I build up, I once again destroy, I myself am the Law-breaker.
19 Through the Law, I died to the Law—so I can live for God. I was crucified with Christ.
20 I no longer live. Christ lives—in me. Though I live in flesh now, I live by trust in God’s Son.
He loved me and gave himself up for me. 21 I don’t deny God’s grace:
If righteousness came by Law, Christ died for no reason.
Galatians 3.
29 If you’re Christ’s, you’re Abraham’s seed, heirs like he promised—
Galatians 4.
1 but, I point out, so long that heirs are children, they’re no better than slaves.
Masters of everything, 2 but under a nanny, under the butler, till the father determines.
3 Likewise us: While we were children, we were like slaves, learning the Master’s ABCs.
4 When the time was complete, God sent out his Son: Begotten by a woman, begotten under the Law
5 so he might redeem the Law, so we might get adopted.
Galatians 5.
19 Fleshly works are obvious in anyone who practices the following:
Promiscuity. Uncleanness. Unethical behavior.
20 Idolatry. Addiction. Hatred. Rabble-rousing.
Too much zeal. Anger. Partisanship. Separatism. Heresy.
21 Envy. Intoxication. Constant partying. And other people like these.
I warn you of them just like I warned you before:
Those who do such things won’t inherit God’s kingdom.
Galatians 6.
6 You who are instructed in the word: Share every good thing with your instructor.
7 Don’t be misled; God’s not sneered at. Whatever a person plants, they’ll harvest.
8 Hence those who plant things in their own flesh will harvest gangrene out of their flesh,
and those who plant things in the Spirit will harvest life in the age to come out of the Spirit.
9 We who do good mustn’t slack off: We who don’t quit, in time, will harvest!