Unlike his letter to the Thessalonians, Paul does not begin his letter to the churches of Galatia with a thanksgiving, Paul instead uses a stern, authoritative tone portrayed to the reader as almost asserting dominance. Paul begins with this tone because he is upset with the people of Galatia. Paul spends many verses throughout his letter reiterating how his message is righteous and divine, this is vividly shown in Galatians 1:11-12 and from a reader’s perspective comes off as almost childish dominance. Nonetheless, Paul wants to make it clear that the teachings he preached to them, and now this letter are not his words or mission but the words and teachings of Jesus himself, the savior.

The tone used in 1:6-9 is anger and frustration. Paul unlike with his other letter is over being courteous to attract others; he needs his message heard, not leaving anything to the imagination.

The verses that seem to illustrate why Paul is mad the most seem to come at the end of the first chapter. In this section, Paul feels the need to not only defend his apostleship once again but also allude to some sort of hypocrisy about teachings and the persecution of others. (1:20-24 respectively). To connect the importance of the earlier decision to not use a message of thanksgiving, we see that it is because of the people of Galatia’s fault in the persecution that triggers Paul to write with such impatience.