Produced by Martin Ward
Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Galatians
Third Edition 1913
R. F. Weymouth
001:001 Paul, an Apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from among the dead—
001:002 and all the brethren who are with me: To the Churches of Galatia.
001:003 May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
001:004 who gave Himself to suffer for our sins in order to rescue us from the present wicked age in accordance with the will of our God and Father.
001:005 To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.
001:006 I marvel that you are so readily leaving Him who called you by the grace of Christ, and are adhering to a different Good News.
001:007 For other "Good News" there is none; but there are some
persons who are troubling you, and are seeking to distort
the Good News concerning Christ.
001:008 But if even we or an angel from Heaven should bring you a
Good News different from that which we have already brought you,
let him be accursed.
001:009 What I have just said I repeat—if any one is preaching to you
a Good News other than that which you originally received,
let him be accursed.
001:010 For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to?
Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser,
I should not be Christ's bondservant.
001:011 For I must tell you, brethren, that the Good News which was
proclaimed by me is not such as man approves of.
001:012 For, in fact, it was not from man that I received or learnt it,
but by a revelation from Jesus Christ.
001:013 For you have heard of my early career in Judaism—how I furiously
persecuted the Church of God, and made havoc of it;
001:014 and how in devotion to Judaism I outstripped many men of my own age among my people, being far more zealous than they on behalf of the traditions of my forefathers.
001:015 But when He who set me apart even from my birth, and called me by His grace,
001:016 saw fit to reveal His Son within me in order that I might tell
among the Gentiles the Good News concerning Him, at once I
did not confer with any human being,
001:017 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were my seniors
in the Apostleship, but I went away into Arabia, and afterwards
came back to Damascus.
001:018 Then, three years later, I went up to Jerusalem to inquire for Peter, and I spent a fortnight with him.
001:019 I saw none of the other Apostles, except James, the Lord's brother.
001:020 In making these assertions I am speaking the truth, as in the sight of God.
001:021 Afterwar