Sha'ul�s Letter to the Galatians, Chapter 2
{2:1} Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to
Yerushalayim with Bar-Nabba, taking Titus also with me. {2:2} I went
up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach
among the Goyim, 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 Yevanit, 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 Kefa with the Good News for the circumcision
{2:8} (for he who appointed Kefa to the apostleship of the
circumcision appointed me also to the Goyim); {2:9} and when they
perceived the grace that was given to me, Ya`akov and Kefa and
Yochanan, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and
Bar-Nabba the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the
Goyim, 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 Kefa came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he
stood condemned. {2:12} For before some people came from Ya`akov, he
ate with the Goyim. But when they came, he drew back and separated
himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. {2:13} And the
rest of the Yehudim joined him in his hypocrisy; so much that even
Bar-Nabba 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 Kefa before them all, "If you, being a Yehudi, live as
the Goyim do, and not as the Yehudim do, why do you compel the Goyim
to live as the Yehudim do?
{2:15} "We, being Yehudim by nature, and not Goy sinners, {2:16} yet
knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but
through the faith of 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? God
forbid! {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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