{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/galatians/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:25:53.540Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Galatians","bookSlug":"galatians","chapter":1,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":6,"totalVerses":24},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead, "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father: "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"To whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Which is not another, only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For neither did I receive it of man, nor did I learn it; but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And I made progress in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But when it pleased him, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles who were before me: but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem, to see Peter, and I tarried with him fifteen days. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of the Lord. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ: "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"But they had heard only: He, who persecuted us in times past, doth now preach the faith which once he impugned: "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And they glorified God in me. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Galatians 1 (DRB)","markdown":"[Galatians 1](https://primebible.com/drb/galatians/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/galatians/1 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}