The New Testament: An American Translation
1923 by Edgar Goodspeed

Galatians Chapter 1

Gal 1:1 Paul, an apostle not from men nor sent by any man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead—
Gal 1:2 and all the brothers who are here with me, to the churches of Galatia;
Gal 1:3 blessing and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
Gal 1:4 who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.
Gal 1:5 To him be glory forever and ever! Amen.
Gal 1:6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news—
Gal 1:7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.
Gal 1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven preach to you good news that contradicts the good news we have preached to you, a curse upon him!
Gal 1:9 We have said it before, and I repeat it now—if anyone is preaching to you good news that contradicts the good news you have already received, a curse upon him!
Gal 1:10 Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.
Gal 1:11 For I tell you plainly, brothers, that the good news that I preached is not a human affair.
Gal 1:12 I did not receive it from any man, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Gal 1:13 You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion—how furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,
Gal 1:14 and how I surpassed many of my own age among my people in my devotion to Judaism, I was so fanatically devoted to what my forefathers had handed down.
Gal 1:15 And when God, who had set me apart from my birth and had called me in his mercy, saw fit
Gal 1:16 to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the good news about him to the heathen, immediately, instead of consulting with any human being,
Gal 1:17 or going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.
Gal 1:18 Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem, to become acquainted with Cephas, and I spent two weeks with him;
Gal 1:19 but I did not see any other apostle, except James, the Lord's brother.
Gal 1:20 (In writing you this, I call God to witness that I am telling the truth!)
Gal 1:21 After that, I went to the districts of Syria and Cilicia.
Gal 1:22 I was still personally unknown to the Christian churches of Judea;
Gal 1:23 they only heard people say, "The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the good news of the faith he tried to destroy,"
Gal 1:24 and they praised God for me.