3. I pray that God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!
4. Christ obeyed God our Father and gave himself as a sacrifice for our sins to rescue us from this evil world.
5. God will be given glory for ever and ever. Amen.
6. I am shocked that you have so quickly turned from God, who chose you because of his wonderful kindness. You have believed another message,
7. when there is really only one true message. But some people are causing you trouble and want to make you turn away from the good news about Christ.
8. I pray that God will punish anyone who preaches anything different from our message to you! It doesn't matter if that person is one of us or an angel from heaven.
9. I have said it before, and I will say it again. I hope God will punish anyone who preaches anything different from what you have already believed.
10. I am not trying to please people. I want to please God. Do you think I am trying to please people? If I were doing that, I would not be a servant of Christ.
11. My friends, I want you to know that no one made up the message I preach.
12. It wasn't given or taught to me by some mere human. My message came directly from Jesus Christ when he appeared to me.
13. You know how I used to live as a Jew. I was cruel to God's church and even tried to destroy it.
14. I was a much better Jew than anyone else my own age, and I obeyed every law that our ancestors had given us.
15. But even before I was born, God had chosen me. He was kind and had decided
16. to show me his Son, so that I would announce his message to the Gentiles. I didn't talk this over with anyone.