Friday, December 23, 2016
Galatians 1 NLT
- Denunciation (1:6-10)
The Galatians' Experience of the Gospel (3:1-5)The Experience of Abraham (3:6-9)The Curse of the Law (3:10-14)The Priority of the Promise (3:15-18)The Purpose of the Law (3:19-25)Sons, Not Slaves (3:26;4:7)The Danger of Turning Back (4:8-11)Appeal to Embrace the Freedom of God's Children (4:12-20)God's Children Are Children of the Free Woman (4:21-31)
Galatians 1 NLT
1 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.
2 All the brothers and sisters here
join me in sending this letter to the churches of Galatia.
3 May God the Father and our Lord Jesus
Christ give you grace and peace.
4 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.
5 All glory to God forever and ever!
Amen.
6 I am shocked that you are turning
away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of
Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good
News
7 but is not the Good News at all. You
are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning
Christ.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 Dear brothers and sisters, I want you
to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human
reasoning.
12 I received my message from no human
source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from
Jesus Christ.
13 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.
14 I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in
my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors.
15 But even before I was born, God chose
me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him
16 to reveal his Son to me so that I
would proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles. When this happened, I
did not rush out to consult with any human being.
17 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.
18 Then three years later I went to
Jerusalem to get to know Peter, and I stayed with him for fifteen days.
19 The only other apostle I met at that
time was James, the Lord’s brother.
20 I declare before God that what I am
writing to you is not a lie.
21 After that visit I went north into
the provinces of Syria and Cilicia.
22 And still the churches in Christ that
are in Judea didn’t know me personally.
23 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!”
24 And they praised
God because of me.
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