Chapter 1
Paul an Apostle not of men nether by man but by Iesus Christ and by God the father which raysed him from deeth:
and all the brethren which are with me. Vnto the congregacios of Galacia.
Grace be with you and peace from God the father and from oure Lorde Iesus Christ
which gave him selfe for oure synnes to deliver vs from this present evyll worlde thorow the will of God oure father
to whom be prayse for ever and ever. Amen.
I marvayle that ye are so sone turned fro him that called you in the grace of Christ vnto another gospell:
which is nothinge els but that ther be some which trouble you and intende to pervert to gospell of Christ.
Neverthelesse though we oure selves or an angell fro heve preache eny other gospell vnto you the that which we have preached vnto you holde him as a cursed.
As I sayde before so saye I now agayne yf eny man preache eny other thinge vnto you then that ye have receaved holde him accursed.
Preache I mannes doctrine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men I were not the servaunt of Christ.
I certifie you brethren that the gospell which was preached of me was not after the maner of men
nether receaved I it of ma nether was I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ.
For ye have hearde of my conversacion in tyme past in the Iewes wayes how that beyonde measure I persecuted the congregacion of God and spoyled it:
and prevayled in the Iewes laye above many of my companions which were of myne awne nacio and was a moche more fervet mayntener of the tradicions of the elders.
But whe it pleased God which separated me from my mothers wombe and called me by his grace
forto declare his sonne by me that I shuld preache him amonge the hethen: immediatly I comened not of the matter with flesshe and bloud
nether returned to Ierusalem to them which were Apostles before me: but wet my wayes into Arabia and came agayne vnto Damasco.
Then after thre yeare I returned to Ierusalem to se Peter and abode with him .xv. dayes
no nother of the Apostles sawe I save Iames the Lordes brother.
The thinges which I write beholde God knoweth I lye not.
After that I went into the costes of Siria and Cilicia:
and was vnknowen as touchinge my person vnto ye cogregacios of Iewrye which were in Christ.
But they hearde only that he which persecuted vs in tyme past now preacheth the fayth which before he destroyed.
And they glorified God on my behalffe.
Chapter 2
Then .xiiii. yeares after that I wet vp agayne to Ierusalem with Barnabas and toke with me Titus also.
Ye and I went vp by revelacion and comened with them of the Gospell which I preache amonge the gentyls: but apart with them which were couted chefe lest it shuld have bene thought yt I shuld runne or had runne in vayne.
Also Titus which was with me though he were a Greke yet was not compelled to be circumcised
and that because of incomers beynge falce brethren which came in amoge other to spye out oure libertie which we have in Christ Iesus that they might bringe vs into bondage.
To whom we gave no roume no not for the space of an houre as cocerninge to be brought into subieccio: and that because that the trueth of the gospell myght continue with you.
Of the which seme to be great (what they were in tyme passed it maketh no matter to me: God loketh on no mans person) neverthelesse they which seme great added nothynge to me.
But contrary wyse when they sawe that the gospell over the vncircumcision was comitted vnto me as the gospell over ye circucision was vnto Peter:
for he yt was myghty in Peter in the Apostleshippe over the circumcision the same was myghty in me amoge the gentyls:
and therfore when they perceaved the grace that was geve vnto me then Iames Cephas and Iohn which semed to be pilers gave to me and Barnabas the ryght hondes and agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes:
warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore. Which thinge also I was diligent to do.
And when Peter was come to Antioche I withstode him in the face for he was worthy to be blamed.
For yerr that certayne came fro Iames he ate with the gentyls. But when they were come he withdrue and separated him selfe fearinge them which were of ye circumcision.
And ye other Iewes dissembled lyke wyse in so moche that Barnabas was brought into their simulacio also.