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Paul proclaims the gospel on a mountain road as former persecutors ride into shadow and distant believers rejoice beneath a breaking dawn.
KING JAMES VERSION

GALATIANS 1

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Galatians 1 — Paul defends the gospel revealed by Christ and recounts how the former persecutor was called by grace to preach the faith he once destroyed.

About this illustration

The road combines Paul’s former persecution, Arabian and Syrian travels, and the churches’ gratitude into one visual progression. The departing riders symbolize his abandoned course; revelation is conveyed by natural light rather than a bodily divine figure.

Scripture basis: Galatians 1:1–24
  1. 1Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
  2. 2And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
  3. 3Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
  4. 4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
  5. 5To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  6. 6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
  7. 7Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
  8. 8But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
  9. 9As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
  10. 10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
  11. 11But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
  12. 12For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  13. 13For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
  14. 14And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
  15. 15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
  16. 16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
  17. 17Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
  18. 18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
  19. 19But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.
  20. 20Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
  21. 21Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
  22. 22And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
  23. 23But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
  24. 24And they glorified God in me.

King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom

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