1 Okuza ku Paulus, ami okurira omuapostele hi toororerwe i ovandu nu hi zikirwe i ovandu, nungwari mba zikwa i Jesus Kristus na Ndjambi Tate ngwe mu pendurire movakoke. 2 Ovakambure ovakwetu avehe mbe ri puna ami mba mave minike ozombongo mOgalatie.
3 Ndjambi Tate na Muhona Jesus Kristus nge mu pe otjari nohange.
4 Mokutukutura kouye mbwi ouvi, Kristus we riyandjera omuini ourunde wetu: Nu komuhingo mbwi eye otja yenenisa ombango ya Ndjambi Tate. 5 Ndjambi nga yozikwe aruhe nga ko nga aruhe! Amen.
Ombuze Ombwa iimwe uriri
6 Ami mba kumwa na eṋe kutja kamanga nai mwa poka ku Ndjambi ngwe mu isanene motjari tja Kristus, nokutja mwa yakura ombuze yarwe. 7 Nu, mouatjiri, kape “nombuze yarwe”, nungwari pe novandu tjiva mbe mu pukisa nu mbe kondja okurundurura Ombuze ya Kristus. 8 Nungwari nangarire eṱe poo nangarire omuengeri weyuru tjinangara me mu zuvarisire ombuze ombwa yarwe, ndji he ri indji eṱe ndji twe mu zuvarisira, eye nga sengwe! 9 Eṱe otjiṋa hi twa hungirire rutenga, nu nambano me tji yarukire po rukwao: Tjinangara pe nomundu ngu me mu zuvarisire ombuze ombwa yarwe, ndji he ri indji eṋe ndji mwa yakura, eye nga sengwe!
10 Me zuvaka aayo me ritjatisa kovandu are? Kako! Ihi tji me vanga okongwi okuritjatisa ku Ndjambi porwe. Nu ndovazu me ritjatisa kovandu, okutja himukarere wa Kristus.
Paulus wa rira vi omuapostele
11 Ami me mu tjivisa nawa, vakwetu, kutja indji Ombuze Ombwa ndji mbi zuvarisa, oyo kai ri otja komuhingo wovandu. 12 Ami hi i perwe i omundu nu hi i hongerwe i omundu. Jesus Kristus omuini ongwe i yandja ku ami momavandururiro.
13 Eṋe mwa zuvire indji ongarero yandje, ndji mba ri na yo rukuru momahongero wOvajuda, na indu tjiye tatumisa ombongo ya Ndjambi nokuhinotjari na tjiye kondjo okuinyona. 14 Momahongero wOvajuda ami mba ri komeho tjinene pomakura wandje omengi momuhoko wandje, nu mbari omupyuke tjinene mombazu yootate mukururume.
15 Nungwari Ndjambi we ndji toororere ngunda ambi hiya kwatwa; neye we ndji isana motjari tje. Nu mouwa we eye tja tya 16 okuvandururira ami Omuna we kokutja mbi zuvarise Ombuze ye Ombwa mokati kaimba mbe he ri Ovajuda, ami hi kaningirire ondunge komundu, 17 nu wina hi ire kOjerusalem ku imba mba ri ovaapostele komurungu wandje. Ami mba ire tjimanga kOaraba, nokuzambo e kotoka kOdamaskus. 18 Nu kombunda yozombura ndatu otji mba ire kOjerusalem okukatjiwasana na Petrus ne kakara ovivike vivari puna ye. 19 Ami hi mwine omuapostele warwe omukwao posi na Jakobus, omuangu wa Muhona.
20 Nu omambo ngu me tjanga nga owo ouatjiri. Ndjambi ma tjiwa kutja hi nokukora ovizeze.
21 Nu kombunda yanao ami mba ire kovirongo tjiva mehi ra Sirie nora Silisie. 22 Momayuva ngo ozombongo za Kristus zehi ra Judea ami omuini kaaze ndji tjiwa. 23 Ozo aaze tjiwa imbi porwavyo ovakwao mbyaa ve hungire ave tja: “Omurumendu ngwaa tatumisa eṱe, nambano ongu ma zuvarisa ongamburiro ndji eye rukuru ndjiya vanga okunyona!” 24 Nozo otji za hivirika Ndjambi motjimbe tjandje.
1 From Paul, whose call to be an apostle did not come from human beings or by human means, but from Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from death. 2 All the believers who are here join me in sending greetings to the churches of Galatia:
3 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
4 In order to set us free from this present evil age, Christ gave himself for our sins, in obedience to the will of our God and Father. 5 To God be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
The One Gospel
6 I am surprised at you! In no time at all you are deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ, and are accepting another gospel. 7 Actually, there is no “other gospel,” but I say this because there are some people who are upsetting you and trying to change the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel that is different from the one we preached to you, may he be condemned to hell! 9 We have said it before, and now I say it again: if anyone preaches to you a gospel that is different from the one you accepted, may he be condemned to hell!
10 Does this sound as if I am trying to win human approval? No indeed! What I want is God's approval! Am I trying to be popular with people? If I were still trying to do so, I would not be a servant of Christ.
How Paul Became an Apostle
11 Let me tell you, my friends, that the gospel I preach is not of human origin. 12 I did not receive it from any human being, nor did anyone teach it to me. It was Jesus Christ himself who revealed it to me.
13 You have been told how I used to live when I was devoted to the Jewish religion, how I persecuted without mercy the church of God and did my best to destroy it. 14 I was ahead of most other Jews of my age in my practice of the Jewish religion, and was much more devoted to the traditions of our ancestors.
15 But God in his grace chose me even before I was born, and called me to serve him. And when he decided 16 to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the Good News about him to the Gentiles, I did not go to anyone for advice, 17 nor did I go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me. Instead, I went at once to Arabia, and then I returned to Damascus. 18 It was three years later that I went to Jerusalem to obtain information from Peter, and I stayed with him for two weeks. 19 I did not see any other apostle except James, the Lord's brother.
20 What I write is true. God knows that I am not lying!
21 Afterward I went to places in Syria and Cilicia. 22 At that time the members of the churches in Judea did not know me personally. 23 They knew only what others were saying: “The man who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith that he once tried to destroy!” 24 And so they praised God because of me.
