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¶ Paul an Apostle not of men nether by man but by Iesus Christ and by God the father which raysed him from deeth:
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and all the brethren which are with me. Vnto the congregacios of Galacia.
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Grace be with you and peace from God the father and from oure Lorde Iesus Christ
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which gave him selfe for oure synnes to deliver vs from this present evyll worlde thorow the will of God oure father
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to whom be prayse for ever and ever. Amen.
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I marvayle that ye are so sone turned fro him that called you in the grace of Christ vnto another gospell:
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which is nothinge els but that ther be some which trouble you and intende to pervert to gospell of Christ.
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Neverthelesse though we oure selves or an angell fro heve preache eny other gospell vnto you the that which we have preached vnto you holde him as a cursed.
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As I sayde before so saye I now agayne yf eny man preache eny other thinge vnto you then that ye have receaved holde him accursed.
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Preache I mannes doctrine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men I were not the servaunt of Christ.
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I certifie you brethren that the gospell which was preached of me was not after the maner of men
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nether receaved I it of ma nether was I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ.
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For ye have hearde of my conversacion in tyme past in the Iewes wayes how that beyonde measure I persecuted the congregacion of God and spoyled it:
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and prevayled in the Iewes laye above many of my companions which were of myne awne nacio and was a moche more fervet mayntener of the tradicions of the elders.
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But whe it pleased God which seperated me from my mothers wombe and called me by his grace
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forto declare his sonne by me that I shuld preache him amonge the hethen: immediatly I comened not of the matter with flesshe and bloud
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nether returned to Ierusalem to them which were Apostles before me: but wet my wayes into Arabia and came agayne vnto Damasco.
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Then after thre yeare I returned to Ierusalem to se Peter and abode with him.xv. dayes
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no nother of the Apostles sawe I save Iames the Lordes brother.
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The thinges which I write beholde God knoweth I lye not.
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After that I went into the costes of Siria and Cilicia:
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and was vnknowen as touchinge my person vnto ye cogregacios of Iewrye which were in Christ.
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But they hearde only that he which persecuted vs in tyme past now preacheth the fayth which before he destroyed.
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And they glorified God on my behalffe.