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# Galatians 1

Galatians 1 is chapter 1 of 6 in the Letter to the Galatians. Here are all 24 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He blames the Galatians for suffering themselves to be imposed upon by new teachers. The apostle's calling.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Galatians 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Paul, an Apostle, not from men and not through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,
2. and all the brothers who are with me: to the churches of Galatia.
3. Grace and peace to you from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
4. who gave himself on behalf of our sins, so that he might deliver us from this present wicked age, according to the will of God our Father.
5. To him is glory forever and ever. Amen.
6. I wonder that you have been so quickly transferred, from him who called you into the grace of Christ, over to another gospel.
7. For there is no other, except that there are some persons who disturb you and who want to overturn the Gospel of Christ.
8. But if anyone, even we ourselves or an Angel from Heaven, were to preach to you a gospel other than the one that we have preached to you, let him be anathema.
9. Just as we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone has preached a gospel to you, other than that which you have received, let him be anathema.
10. For am I now persuading men, or God? Or, am I seeking to please men? If I still were pleasing men, then I would not be a servant of Christ.
11. For I would have you understand, brothers, that the Gospel which has been preached by me is not according to man.
12. And I did not receive it from man, nor did I learn it, except through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13. For you have heard of my former behavior within Judaism: that, beyond measure, I persecuted the Church of God and fought against Her.
14. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my equals among my own kind, having proven to be more abundant in zeal toward the traditions of my fathers.
15. But, when it pleased him who, from my mother’s womb, had set me apart, and who has called me by his grace,
16. to reveal his Son within me, so that I might evangelize him among the Gentiles, I did not next seek the consent of flesh and blood.
17. Neither did I go to Jerusalem, to those who were Apostles before me. Instead, I went into Arabia, and next I returned to Damascus.
18. And then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Peter; and I stayed with him for fifteen days.
19. But I saw none of the other Apostles, except James, the brother of the Lord.
20. Now what I am writing to you: behold, before God, I am not lying.
21. Next, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22. But I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ.
23. For they had only heard that: “He, who formerly persecuted us, now evangelizes the faith which he once fought.”
24. And they glorified God in me.

## Galatians 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Paulus, Apostolus non ab hominibus, neque per hominem, sed per Jesum Christum, et Deum Patrem, qui suscitavit eum a mortuis:
2. et qui mecum sunt omnes fratres, ecclesiis Galatiæ.
3. Gratia vobis, et pax a Deo Patre, et Domino nostro Jesu Christo,
4. qui dedit semetipsum pro peccatis nostris, ut eriperet nos de præsenti sæculo nequam, secundum voluntatem Dei et Patris nostri,
5. cui est gloria in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.
6. Miror quod sic tam cito transferimini ab eo qui vos vocavit in gratiam Christi in aliud Evangelium:
7. quod non est aliud, nisi sunt aliqui qui vos conturbant, et volunt convertere Evangelium Christi.
8. Sed licet nos aut angelus de cælo evangelizet vobis præterquam quod evangelizavimus vobis, anathema sit.
9. Sicut prædiximus, et nunc iterum dico: si quis vobis evangelizaverit præter id quod accepistis, anathema sit.
10. Modo enim hominibus suadeo, an Deo? an quæro hominibus placere? si adhuc hominibus placerem, Christi servus non essem.
11. Notum enim vobis facio, fratres, Evangelium, quod evangelizatum est a me, quia non est secundum hominem:
12. neque enim ego ab homine accepi illud, neque didici, sed per revelationem Jesu Christi.
13. Audistis enim conversationem meam aliquando in Judaismo: quoniam supra modum persequebar Ecclesiam Dei, et expugnabam illam,
14. et proficiebam in Judaismo supra multos coætaneos meos in genere meo, abundantius æmulator existens paternarum mearum traditionum.
15. Cum autem placuit ei, qui me segregavit ex utero matris meæ, et vocavit per gratiam suam,
16. ut revelaret Filium suum in me, ut evangelizarem illum in gentibus: continuo non acquievi carni et sanguini,
17. neque veni Jerosolymam ad antecessores meos Apostolos: sed abii in Arabiam, et iterum reversus sum Damascum:
18. deinde post annos tres veni Jerosolymam videre Petrum, et mansi apud eum diebus quindecim:
19. alium autem Apostolorum vidi neminem, nisi Jacobum fratrem Domini.
20. Quæ autem scribo vobis, ecce coram Deo, quia non mentior.
21. Deinde veni in partes Syriæ, et Ciliciæ.
22. Eram autem ignotus facie ecclesiis Judææ, quæ erant in Christo:
23. tantum autem auditum habebant quoniam qui persequebatur nos aliquando, nunc evangelizat fidem, quam aliquando expugnabat:
24. et in me clarificabant Deum.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 857: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2824: "Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It is in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 752: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 442: The Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 153: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 659: "He Ascended Into Heaven and Is Seated At the Right Hand of the Father" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 500: "Conceived By the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2154: Taking the Name of the Lord in Vain ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “The Lord gave me brothers, and no one showed me what I ought to do, but the Most High Himself revealed to me that I should live according to the form of the Holy Gospel.” — St. Francis of Assisi, Testament, 1226 (On this theme: verse 12)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Oct 9, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Galatians 1:6-12
- Tue, Oct 10, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Galatians 1:13-24

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).