Galatians 2:1-21 NIV
Paul Accepted by the Apostles
1Then
after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also.2 I went in response to a
revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I
presented to them the Gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be
sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain. 3Yet not
even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he
was a Greek. 4This
matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on
the freedom we have in CHRIST JESUS and to make us slaves. 5We did
not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the Gospel might be
preserved for you.
6As for
those who were held in high esteem—whatever they were makes no difference to
me; GOD Does Not Show favoritism—they added nothing to my message. 7On the
contrary, they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching
the Gospel to the uncircumcised,a just as Peter had been to the circumcised.b 8For
GOD, Who Was at Work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at Work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. 9James, Cephas and John, those
esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when
they recognized the Grace Given to me.
They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. 10All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.
They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. 10All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.
Paul Opposes Cephas
11When
Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12For
before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when
they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles
because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. 13The
other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
14 When I
saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the Gospel, I said to
Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and
not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish
customs?
15“We who
are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles 16know
that a person is not justified by the works of the Law, but by faith in JESUS
CHRIST. So we, too, have put our faith in CHRIST JESUS that we may be justified
by faith Ind CHRIST and not by the works of the Law,
because by the works of the Law no one will be justified.
17“But
if, in seeking to be justified In CHRIST, we Jews find ourselves also among the
sinners, doesn’t that mean that CHRIST Promotes sin? Absolutely not! 18If I
rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.
19“For
through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for GOD.
20I
have been crucified With CHRIST and I no longer live, But CHRIST Lives in me.
The life I now live in the body, I live by faith In The SON of GOD, Who Loved
me and Gave HIMSELF for me.
21I do not set aside The Grace of GOD,
for if righteousness could be gained through the Law, CHRIST Died for nothing!”
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