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Paul's Letter to the Galatians, Chapter 2
{2:1} Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to
Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. {2:2} I went up by
revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I proclaim
among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for
fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. {2:3} But not even
Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be
circumcised. {2:4} This was because of the false brothers secretly
brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in
Messiah Yeshua, that they might bring us into bondage; {2:5} to whom
we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the
truth of the Good News might continue with you. {2:6} But from those
who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no
difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say,
who were respected imparted nothing to me, {2:7} but to the contrary,
when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the
uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
{2:8} (for he who appointed Peter to be an emissary of the
circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles); {2:9} and when they
perceived the grace that was given to me, Jacob and [1>]Kefa[<1] and
Yochanan, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas
the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and
they to the circumcision. {2:10} They only asked us to remember the
poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.
{2:11} But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face,
because he stood condemned. {2:12} For before some people came from
Jacob, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and
separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. {2:13}
And the rest of the Jewish believers joined him in his hypocrisy; so
that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. {2:14} But
when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of
the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew,
live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the
Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
{2:15} "We, being Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners, {2:16} yet
knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but
through faith in Yeshua the Messiah, even we believed in Messiah
Yeshua, that we might be justified by faith in Messiah, and not by the
works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of
the law. {2:17} But if, while we sought to be justified in Messiah, we
ourselves also were found sinners, is Messiah a servant of sin?
Certainly not! {2:18} For if I build up again those things which I
destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. {2:19} For I, through the
law, died to the law, that I might live to God. {2:20} I have been
crucified with Messiah, and it is no longer I that live, but Messiah
living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith
in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. {2:21} I
don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the
law, then Messiah died for nothing!"
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Footnotes:
[1] {2:9} Greek: Cephas
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