1 From: Sha’ul, an emissary — I received my commission not from human beings or through human mediation but through Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — also from all the brothers with me
2 To: The Messianic communities in Galatia:
3 Grace andshalomto you from God our Father and from the Lord Yeshua the Messiah,
4 who gave himself for our sins, so that he might deliver us from the present evil world-system, in obedience to the will of God, our Father.
5 To him be the glory forever and ever!Amen.
6 I am astounded that you are so quick to remove yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah’s grace, and turn to some other supposedly “Good News,”
7 which is not good news at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good News of the Messiah.
8 But even if we — or, for that matter, an angel from heaven! — were to announce to you some so-called “Good News” contrary to the Good News we did announce to you, let him be under a curse forever!
9 We said it before, and I say it again: if anyone announces “Good News” contrary to what you received, let him be under a curse forever!
10 Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God’s approval! Or that I’m trying to cater to people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.
11 Furthermore, let me make clear to you, brothers, that the Good News as I proclaim it is not a human product;
12 because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it — it came through a direct revelation from Yeshua the Messiah.
13 For you have heard about my former way of life in [traditional] Judaism — how I did my best to persecute God’s Messianic Community and destroy it;
14 and how, since I was more of a zealot for the traditions handed down by my forefathers than most Jews my age, I advanced in [traditional] Judaism more rapidly than they did.
15 But when God, who picked me out before I was born and called me by his grace, chose
16 to reveal his Son to me, so that I might announce him to the Gentiles, I did not consult anyone;
17 and I did not go up to Yerushalayim to see those who were emissaries before me. Instead, I immediately went off to Arabia and afterwards returned to Dammesek.
18 Not until three years later did I go up to Yerushalayim to make Kefa’s acquaintance, and I stayed with him for two weeks,
19 but I did not see any of the other emissaries except Ya‘akov the Lord’s brother.
20 (Concerning these matters I am writing you about, I declare before God that I am not lying!)
21 Next I went to Syria and Cilicia;
22 but in Y’hudah, the Messianic congregations didn’t even know what I looked like —
23 they were only hearing the report, “The one who used to persecute us now preaches the Good News of the faith he was formerly out to destroy”;
24 and they praised God for me.