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Paul an Apostle, not of men, neither by man: but by Iesus Christe, and by God the father, which raysed hym vp from death:
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And all the brethren which are with me. Unto ye Churches of Galacia:
Verse 3
Grace be with you, and peace from God the father, and from our Lorde Iesus Christe:
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Which gaue hym selfe for our sinnes, to deliuer vs from this present euyll worlde, accordyng to the wyll of God, and our father:
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To whom be glory for euer and euer. Amen.
Verse 6
I maruayle, that ye are so soone turned from him that had called you in the grace of Christe, vnto another Gospell:
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Which is not another Gospel but that there be some which trouble you, and intende to peruert the Gospel of Christ.
Verse 8
Neuerthelesse, though we, or an Angel from heauen, preache any other Gospel vnto you, then that which we haue preached vnto you, let hym be accursed.
Verse 9
As we sayde before, so say I nowe agayne, yf any man preache any other Gospell vnto you, then that ye haue receaued, let hym be accursed.
Verse 10
Do I nowe perswade men, or God? Other do I seke to please men? For yf I shoulde yet please men, I were not the seruaunt of Christe.
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I certifie you brethren, that the Gospell which was preached of me, was not after man.
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For I neither receaued it of man, neither was I taught it but by the reuelation of Iesus Christe.
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For ye haue hearde of my conuersation in tyme past in the Iewes religion, howe that beyonde measure I persecuted the Churche of God, & spoyled it:
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And profited in the Iewes religion, aboue many of my companions in mine owne nation, beyng a very feruent maynteyner of the traditions of my fathers.
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But when it pleased God, which seperated me from my mothers wombe, & called me by his grace,
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To reueale his sonne by me, that I shoulde by the Gospell preache hym among the Heathen: immediatly I communed not with fleshe and blood:
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Neither returned to Hierusalem, to them which were Apostles before me: but went my wayes into Arabia, and came agayne vnto Damascus.
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Then after three yeres, I returned to Hierusale to see Peter, and abode with hym fyfteene dayes.
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But other of the Apostles sawe I none, saue Iames the Lordes brother.
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The thynges therfore which I write vnto you, beholde, before God I lie not.
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Afterwarde, I came into the coastes of Syria & Cilicia,
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and was vnknowen in face vnto the Churches of Iurie, which were in Christe.
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But they had hearde only, that he which persecuted vs in tyme past, nowe preacheth the fayth, which before he destroyed.
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And they glorified God in me.