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Galatians 1 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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SPEAKER_00: Galatians one greetings from Paul, an apostle.
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SPEAKER_00: I was chosen to be an apostle, but not by any group or person here on earth.
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SPEAKER_00: My authority came from none other than Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Jesus from death.
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SPEAKER_00: Greetings also from all of those in God's family who are with me.
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SPEAKER_00: To the churches in Galatia, I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will be good to you and give you peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus gave Himself for our sins to free us from this evil world we live in.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what God our Father wanted.
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SPEAKER_00: The glory belongs to God forever and ever.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: There is only one good news message.
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SPEAKER_00: A short time ago God chose you to follow him.
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SPEAKER_00: He chose you through his grace that came through Christ, but now I am amazed that you are already turning away and believing something different from the good news we told you.
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SPEAKER_00: There is no other message that is the good news.
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SPEAKER_00: But some people are confusing you.
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SPEAKER_00: They want to change the good news about Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: We told you the true good news message, so anyone who tells you a different message should be condemned, even if it's one of us or even an angel from heaven.
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SPEAKER_00: I said this before, now I say it again.
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SPEAKER_00: You have already accepted the good news.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyone who tells you another way to be saved should be condemned.
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SPEAKER_00: Now do you think I am trying to make people accept me?
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: God is the one I am trying to please.
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SPEAKER_00: Am I trying to please people?
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SPEAKER_00: If I wanted to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Paul's authority is from God.
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SPEAKER_00: Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the good news message that I told you was not made up by anyone.
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SPEAKER_00: I did not get my message from any other human.
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SPEAKER_00: The good news is not something I learned about from other people.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ Himself gave it to me.
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SPEAKER_00: He showed me that the good news that I should tell people.
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SPEAKER_00: You have heard about my past life in the Jewish religion.
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SPEAKER_00: I persecuted the Church of God very much.
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SPEAKER_00: I tried to destroy his people.
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SPEAKER_00: I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion.
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SPEAKER_00: I did better than most other Jews my own age.
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SPEAKER_00: I tried harder than anyone else to follow the traditions we got from our ancestors.
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SPEAKER_00: But God had special plans for me even before I was born.
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SPEAKER_00: So he chose me through his grace.
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SPEAKER_00: It pleased him to let me see and know that his son so that I could tell the good news about him to the non Jewish people.
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SPEAKER_00: I immediately prepared to do this work without asking for advice or help from anyone.
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SPEAKER_00: I did not go to Jerusalem to see who were apostles before I was, but without waiting I went away to Arabia.
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SPEAKER_00: Later I went back to the city of Damascus.
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SPEAKER_00: Three years later I went to Jerusalem to meet Peter.
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SPEAKER_00: I stayed with him fifteen days.
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SPEAKER_00: I met no other apostles, only James, the brother of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: God knows there is nothing untrue in any of this.
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SPEAKER_00: Later I went to the areas of Syria and Cilicia.
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SPEAKER_00: No one in any of Christ's churches in Judea had ever met me before.
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SPEAKER_00: They had only heard this about me.
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SPEAKER_00: This man was persecuting us, but now he is telling people about the same faith he once tried to destroy.
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SPEAKER_00: These believers praised God because of me.