Galatians 1:20-24

1:20 I assure you ¹  that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you! ²  1:21 Afterward I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 1:22 But I was personally ³  unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. 1:23 They were only hearing, “The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news ⁴  of the faith he once tried to destroy.” 1:24 So ⁵  they glorified God because of me. ⁶ 

[1:20]  ¹ tn Grk “behold.”

[1:20]  ² tn Grk “What things I am writing to you, behold, before God [that] I am not lying.”

[1:22]  ³ tn Or “by sight”; Grk “by face.”

[1:23]  ⁵ tn The Greek verb here is εὐαγγελίζεται (euangelizetai).

[1:24]  ⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the report about Paul’s conversion.

[1:24]  ⁸ tn The prepositional phrase ἐν εμοί (en emoi) has been translated with a causal force.