1I am Paul, and this letter is from me. I’m sending this letter to you Christians in the churches in Galatia country. Your Christian friends that are with me here, they all say hello to you. I am God’s messenger to you, but it wasn’t a man or any mob of people that gave me the power to be God’s messenger. It was Jesus Christ, and God our Father. They sent me out to tell everybody about Jesus. You see, God is really powerful. People killed Jesus, but God made him alive again.
3I’m asking God our father, and Jesus Christ our leader, to be good to you, and to make you feel happy and quiet inside yourselves.
4You know, we all did bad things, but Jesus took the blame for all of us. He let people kill him. He died instead of us, so now he can save us from this bad world that we live in. This is what God, our Father, wanted him to do.
5So everyone has to say that God is very good and very great. We have to keep saying it all the time, for ever. That’s right.
6But now listen, you mob. You are giving me a big shock. A little while ago I told you the true story about God, but now you are already listening to other people, and they are turning you away from God. You are forgetting the good news we told you and now you are listening to a different story that other people are telling you. They say it is good news, but it is not. We told you the proper good news about Jesus Christ. He loves you and he is very good to you, and God used him to bring you into his family. But that mob are trying to change this story into another story and they call it good news. But really, there isn’t any other good news story. They are just messing you up.
8Listen, don’t let anybody teach you a different story that is not the proper good news that we taught you. I pray that God will punish anyone that teaches a different message, no matter who it is, even if it is us, or an angel messenger from the sky.
9I will say it again. If anyone teaches a story that is different from the story that we told you, the story that you believed, I want God to properly punish that person.
10I might upset some people when I say this, but I work for Jesus Christ and I want God to be happy with me, so I’m telling you straight. It doesn’t matter to me if some people aren’t happy when I talk straight like this.
11You see, my friends, I want you to understand this. Jesus Christ himself told me that good news. No man or woman made up that message. It came from Jesus himself, and after that I told it to you.
13It was like this. You have heard what I was like before. At that time I didn’t believe in Jesus. I was a Jew, and I believed everything that the Jews believe. And you know about the things that I did at that time. I made a lot of trouble for the Christian people. I tried hard to stop them from following Jesus.
14You see, our Jewish grand-fathers told us the way we Jewish people had to live, and I tried hard to live that way. I was becoming a better Jew than most of my mates, the other Jews that were the same age as me.
15But then God was happy to show me Jesus, his son. And after he did that, I didn’t go and ask anybody to tell me anything. You see, God is very good to me and he picked me to be his worker even before I was born. I believed in Jesus, and after that God told me to go and tell the people that are not Jews about Jesus. When God told me to do that, I didn’t talk to anybody about it.
17I didn’t go to Jerusalem to see those that were the special workers of Jesus before I was. I didn’t go and talk to them. Instead of that I went straight away to the country called Arabia. Then later I went back to the city called Damascus.
18Then, 3 years later, I went south to Jerusalem to meet Peter. I stayed there with him for only 15 days.
19I didn’t see any of Jesus Christ’s other special workers, except James, the brother of Jesus.
20What I’m writing to you now is true. And God knows that it is true.
21Later I went north to the countries called Syria and Cilicia.
22But back in Judea country the Christians there didn’t know me.
23They only heard people say, “The man that tried to stop us believing in Jesus Christ, the one that gave us bad trouble and hurt us, that man has changed, and now he is telling everyone to believe in Jesus Christ.”
24Those Christians heard that I changed, and they were happy, and they thanked God and said that he is really great.
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