Below is a translation by the theologian Jordan Daniel Wood. I offer it because the intent was to offer something new to allow a fresher reading of the text.
I marvel at how quickly you’re turning from the one who called you by Christ’s grace and going over to another “gospel,” which is no alternative gospel. Except certain people are beguiling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim a gospel contrary to that which we once proclaimed to you, let such a one be anathema! As we have said, once more I now say: if anyone is announcing to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let such a one be anathema! So now, am I obeying human beings or God? Or am I seeking to cajole human beings? If I were still cajoling human beings, I wouldn’t be a slave of Christ.
For I reveal to you, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I proclaimed is not according to man. For I received it from no human being, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. You’ve heard, after all, of my erstwhile form of life in Judaism, how I was vigorously persecuting and wreaking havoc on the church of God, and how I was advancing in Judaism beyond many peers of my kin, since I was exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when he who marked me out from my mother’s womb was delighted to call me through his grace to make known his Son in me, that I might proclaim this Son among the nations, I did not straightaway consult with flesh and blood. Nor did I go to Jerusalem, to those who were apostles before me. I went instead to Arabia and then returned to Damascus. After three years I went to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. I saw none of the other apostles save James, the brother of the Lord. Look now: I’m writing these things to you before God; I do not lie. I then went into the districts of Syria and Cilicia. But my face was unknown to those churches of Judea who are in Christ. They just heard, “The one who used to persecute us is now proclaiming the faith he once ransacked”—and they glorified the God in me.
Paul to the Galatians
Chapter 1
Paul, an apostle neither from human beings nor through any human being but through Jesus Christ and through God the Father who raised him from the dead; and all the brothers and sisters with me, to the churches of Galatia: to you be grace and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gifted himself for our sins so that he might deliver us from the aeon of looming evil, according to what is willed by God our Father, to whom be glory into the aeons of aeons. Amen.I marvel at how quickly you’re turning from the one who called you by Christ’s grace and going over to another “gospel,” which is no alternative gospel. Except certain people are beguiling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim a gospel contrary to that which we once proclaimed to you, let such a one be anathema! As we have said, once more I now say: if anyone is announcing to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let such a one be anathema! So now, am I obeying human beings or God? Or am I seeking to cajole human beings? If I were still cajoling human beings, I wouldn’t be a slave of Christ.
For I reveal to you, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I proclaimed is not according to man. For I received it from no human being, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. You’ve heard, after all, of my erstwhile form of life in Judaism, how I was vigorously persecuting and wreaking havoc on the church of God, and how I was advancing in Judaism beyond many peers of my kin, since I was exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when he who marked me out from my mother’s womb was delighted to call me through his grace to make known his Son in me, that I might proclaim this Son among the nations, I did not straightaway consult with flesh and blood. Nor did I go to Jerusalem, to those who were apostles before me. I went instead to Arabia and then returned to Damascus. After three years I went to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. I saw none of the other apostles save James, the brother of the Lord. Look now: I’m writing these things to you before God; I do not lie. I then went into the districts of Syria and Cilicia. But my face was unknown to those churches of Judea who are in Christ. They just heard, “The one who used to persecute us is now proclaiming the faith he once ransacked”—and they glorified the God in me.