Coming with Authority
13 This will be (A)the third time I am coming to you. (B)“By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.” 2 (C)I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those (D)who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again (E)I will not spare— 3 since you seek a proof of Christ (F)speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty (G)in you. 4 (H)For though He was crucified in weakness, yet (I)He lives by the power of God. For (J)we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.
5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, (K)that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are (L)disqualified. 6 But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.
Paul Prefers Gentleness
7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though (M)we may seem disqualified. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9 For we are glad (N)when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, (O)that you may be made complete. 10 (P)Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the (Q)authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.
Greetings and Benediction
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. (R)Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love (S)and peace will be with you.
12 (T)Greet one another with a holy kiss.
13 All the saints greet you.
14 (U)The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and (V)the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
Greeting
1 Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but (W)through Jesus Christ and God the Father (X)who raised Him from the dead), 2 and all the brethren who are with me,
To the churches of Galatia:
3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 (Y)who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us (Z)from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Only One Gospel
6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon (AA)from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 (AB)which is not another; but there are some (AC)who trouble you and want to (AD)pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if (AE)we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you (AF)than what you have received, let him be accursed.
10 For (AG)do I now (AH)persuade men, or God? Or (AI)do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
Call to Apostleship(AJ)
11 (AK)But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. 12 For (AL)I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came (AM)through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how (AN)I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and (AO)tried to destroy it. 14 And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, (AP)being more exceedingly zealous (AQ)for the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God, (AR)who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, 16 (AS)to reveal His Son in me, that (AT)I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with (AU)flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
Contacts at Jerusalem(AV)
18 Then after three years (AW)I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. 19 But (AX)I saw none of the other apostles except (AY)James, the Lord’s brother. 20 (Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.)
21 (AZ)Afterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 22 And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which (BA)were in Christ. 23 But they were (BB)hearing only, “He who formerly (BC)persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy.” 24 And they (BD)glorified God in me.