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,