Galatians
2
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1 Then fourteen years after I went
up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
2 And I went up by revelation, and
communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but
privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should
run, or had run, in vain.
3 But neither Titus, who was with
me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
4 And that because of false brethren
unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we
have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
5 To whom we gave place by
subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might
continue with you.
6 But of these who seemed to be
somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth
no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in
conference added nothing to me:
7 But contrariwise, when they saw
that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the
gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
8 (For he that wrought effectually
in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me
toward the Gentiles:)
9 And when James, Cephas, and John,
who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they
gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should
go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
10 Only they would that we
should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
11 But when Peter was come to
Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12 For before that certain came from
James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew
and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
13 And the other Jews dissembled
likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their
dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that they walked
not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter
before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of
Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live
as do the Jews?
15 We who are Jews by nature,
and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16 Knowing that a
man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus
Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified
by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works
of the law shall no flesh be justified.
17 But if, while we seek to be
justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is
therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18 For if I build again the things
which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19 For I through the law am dead to
the law, that I might live unto God.
20 I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who
loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not
frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law,
then Christ is dead in vain.
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