Galatians 1:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 9:1 : 1 Israel’s Rejection Considered I am telling the truth in Christ(I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit–
  • 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.
  • 2 Cor 11:10-11 : 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia. 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

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  • 31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

  • 1Israel’s Rejection Considered I am telling the truth in Christ(I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit–

  • Gal 1:21-22
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    76%

    21Afterward I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

    22But I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

  • Gal 1:16-19
    4 verses
    75%

    16to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

    17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.

    18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

    19But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother.

  • 23Why Paul Postponed His Visit Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

  • Titus 1:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1¶ Salutation From Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to further the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that is in keeping with godliness,

    2in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before time began.

  • 7For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle– I am telling the truth; I am not lying– and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

  • 13For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely

  • Gal 1:11-12
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    11Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

    12For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

  • 21I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

  • Gal 1:1-2
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    1¶ Salutation From Paul, an apostle(not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)

    2and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia.

  • 13Conclusion I have many things to write to you, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink.

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    17Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I? Or do I make my plans according to mere human standards so that I would be saying both“Yes, yes” and“No, no” at the same time?

    18But as God is faithful, our message to you is not“Yes” and“No.”

  • 28Other Explanation“Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!

  • 5For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”

  • 7For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

  • 25“And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.

  • 14For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.

  • 11Final Instructions and Benediction See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!

  • 10As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

  • 1¶ Explanatory Preface Now many have undertaken to compile an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

  • 8Paul’s Request for Onesimus So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

  • 16For we did not follow cleverly concocted fables when we made known to you the power and return of our Lord Jesus Christ; no, we were eyewitnesses of his grandeur.

  • 6For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

  • 12Conclusion Though I have many other things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come visit you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

  • 10You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

  • 3For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

  • 17What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

  • 2If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • 11This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.

  • 22And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,

  • 14Conduct in God’s Church I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you

  • 2But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

  • 1When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.

  • 14But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

  • Phil 1:17-18
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    17The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.

    18What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

  • 11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

  • 19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

  • 1Christ’s Resurrection Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,

  • 9I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

  • 30since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.