Lettera ai Galati (غلاطية) 1

SMITH VAN DYKE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 بولس رسول لا من الناس ولا بانسان بل بيسوع المسيح والله الآب الذي اقامه من الاموات	1 From Paul, an apostle appointed not by human beings nor through any human being but by JesusChrist and God the Father who raised him from the dead,
2 وجميع الاخوة الذين معي الى كنائس غلاطية.	2 and al the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia.
3 نعمة لكم وسلام من الله الآب ومن ربنا يسوع المسيح	3 Grace and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ
4 الذي بذل نفسه لاجل خطايانا لينقذنا من العالم الحاضر الشرير حسب ارادة الله وابينا	4 who gave himself for our sins to liberate us from this present wicked world, in accordance with the wil ofour God and Father,
5 الذي له المجد الى ابد الآبدين. آمين	5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
6 اني اتعجب انكم تنتقلون هكذا سريعا عن الذي دعاكم بنعمة المسيح الى انجيل آخر	6 I am astonished that you are so promptly turning away from the one who cal ed you in the grace ofChrist and are going over to a different gospel-
7 ليس هو آخر غير انه يوجد قوم يزعجونكم ويريدون ان يحوّلوا انجيل المسيح.	7 not that it is another gospel; except that there are trouble-makers among you who are seeking to pervertthe gospel of Christ.
8 ولكن ان بشرناكم نحن او ملاك من السماء بغير ما بشرناكم فليكن اناثيما.	8 But even if we ourselves or an angel from heaven preaches to you a gospel other than the one wepreached to you, let God's curse be on him.
9 كما سبقنا فقلنا اقول الآن ايضا ان كان احد يبشركم في غير ما قبلتم فليكن اناثيما.	9 I repeat again what we declared before: anyone who preaches to you a gospel other than the one youwere first given is to be under God's curse.
10 أفاستعطف الآن الناس ام الله. ام اطلب ان ارضي الناس. فلو كنت بعد ارضي الناس لم اكن عبدا للمسيح	10 Whom am I trying to convince now, human beings or God? Am I trying to please human beings? If Iwere stil doing that I should not be a servant of Christ.
11 واعرّفكم ايها الاخوة الانجيل الذي بشرت به انه ليس بحسب انسان.	11 Now I want to make it quite clear to you, brothers, about the gospel that was preached by me, that itwas no human message.
12 لاني لم اقبله من عند انسان ولا علّمته بل باعلان يسوع المسيح.	12 It was not from any human being that I received it, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through arevelation of Jesus Christ.
13 فانكم سمعتم بسيرتي قبلا في الديانة اليهودية اني كنت اضطهد كنيسة الله بافراط واتلفها.	13 You have surely heard how I lived in the past, within Judaism, and how there was simply no limit to the way I persecuted the Church of God in my attempts to destroy it;
14 وكنت اتقدم في الديانة اليهودية على كثيرين من اترابي في جنسي اذ كنت اوفر غيرة في تقليدات آبائي.	14 and how, in Judaism, I outstripped most of my Jewish contemporaries in my limitless enthusiasm forthe traditions of my ancestors.
15 ولكن لما سرّ الله الذي افرزني من بطن امي ودعاني بنعمته	15 But when God, who had set me apart from the time when I was in my mother's womb, cal ed methrough his grace and chose
16 ان يعلن ابنه فيّ لابشر به بين الامم للوقت لم استشر لحما ودما	16 to reveal his Son in me, so that I should preach him to the gentiles, I was in no hurry to confer with anyhuman being,
17 ولا صعدت الى اورشليم الى الرسل الذين قبلي بل انطلقت الى العربية ثم رجعت ايضا الى دمشق.	17 or to go up to Jerusalem to see those who were already apostles before me. Instead, I went off toArabia, and later I came back to Damascus.
18 ثم بعد ثلاث سنين صعدت الى اورشليم لأتعرّف ببطرس فمكثت عنده خمسة عشر يوما.	18 Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to meet Cephas. I stayed fifteen days with him
19 ولكنني لم ار غيره من الرسل الا يعقوب اخا الرب.	19 but did not set eyes on any of the rest of the apostles, only James, the Lord's brother.
20 والذي اكتب به اليكم هوذا قدّام الله اني لست اكذب فيه.	20 I swear before God that what I have written is the truth.
21 وبعد ذلك جئت الى اقاليم سورية وكيليكية.	21 After that I went to places in Syria and Cilicia;
22 ولكنني كنت غير معروف بالوجه عند كنائس اليهودية التي في المسيح	22 and was stil unknown by sight to the churches of Judaea which are in Christ,
23 غير انهم كانوا يسمعون ان الذي كان يضطهدنا قبلا يبشر الآن بالايمان الذي كان قبلا يتلفه.	23 they simply kept hearing it said, 'The man once so eager to persecute us is now preaching the faiththat he used to try to destroy,'
24 فكانوا يمجدون الله فيّ	24 and they gave glory to God for me.