2. and all the believers who are with me.To the churches in Galatia.
3. Good will and peace are yours from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!
4. In order to free us from this present evil world, Christ took the punishment for our sins, because that was what our God and Father wanted.
5. Glory belongs to our God and Father forever! Amen.
6. I’m surprised that you’re so quickly deserting Christ, who called you in his kindness, to follow a different kind of good news.
7. But what some people are calling good news is not really good news at all. They are confusing you. They want to distort the Good News about Christ.
8. Whoever tells you good news that is different from the Good News we gave you should be condemned to hell, even if he is one of us or an angel from heaven.
9. I’m now telling you again what we’ve told you in the past: If anyone tells you good news that is different from the Good News you received, that person should be condemned to hell.
10. Am I saying this now to win the approval of people or God? Am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be Christ’s servant.
11. I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the Good News I have spread is not a human message.
12. I didn’t receive it from any person. I wasn’t taught it, but Jesus Christ revealed it to me.
13. You heard about the way I once lived when I followed the Jewish religion. You heard how I violently persecuted God’s church and tried to destroy it.
14. You also heard how I was far ahead of other Jews in my age group in following the Jewish religion. I had become that fanatical for the traditions of my ancestors.