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Open English Translation GAL Chapter 2

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2:1 The ambassadors accept Paul and Barnabas

2It was fourteen years later that I made the uphill trek to Yerushalem[ref] with Barnabas and taking Titos along as well. 2God had told me to go there and I explained to the leaders there the good message that I’d been proclaiming to the non-Jews. I did it privately to double-check that I wasn’t somehow just acting vainly. 3But not even Titos who was with me was compelled to be circumcised even though he is a Greek. 4However some false brothers were sneaked in to monitor the freedoms that we have in the messiah, Yeshua, and wanting us to be enslaved to their traditions. 5But we didn’t even submit to them for one hour, so that the truth of the good message could continue amongst you.

6[ref]And those people who were supposed leaders (although what they were didn’t mean much to me because God doesn’t go by appearances) didn’t really contribute anything useful as far as I could tell. 7Instead, they saw that I’ve been entrusted with taking the good message to the non-Jews just like Peter was entrusted to take it to the Jews 8because the same God who worked in Peter to commission him to the Jews also worked in me to commission me towards the non-Jews. 9So seeing the grace that God had shown towards me, Yacob and Peter and Yohan, the apparent pillars of the assemblies accepted me and Barnabas as equals, so that we could go to the non-Jews and them to the Jews. 10Also they said that we need to keep helping the poor, but I was eager to do that anyway.

2Then through fourteen years, I_went_up again to Hierousalaʸm with Barnabas, also having_taken_along_with Titos, 2and I_went_up according_to a_revelation, and I_placed_before before_them the good_message that I_am_proclaiming among the pagans, by but myself to_the ones supposing, lest somehow I_may_be_running or I_ran in vain.
3But not_even Titos who was with me, being a_Hellaʸn, was_compelled to_be_circumcised.
4But because_of the sneaked_in false_brothers, who slipped_in to_spy_out the freedom of_us, which we_are_having in chosen_one/messiah Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa), in_order_that they_will_be_enslaving us, 5to_whom we_yielded not_even for an_hour the in_submission, in_order_that the truth of_the good_message may_continue with you_all.
6But of the ones supposing to_be something (what_kind they_were once, nothing is_carrying_value to_me, the god is_ not _receiving the_appearance of_a_person), because/for to_me the ones supposing they_contributed nothing.
7But instead having_seen that I_have_been_entrusted the good_message of_the uncircumcision, as Petros of_the circumcision 8(for the one having_worked in_Petros for commission of_the circumcision, worked also in_me toward the pagans), 9and having_known the grace which having_been_given to_me, Yakōbos/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ) and Kaʸfas, and Yōannaʸs, the ones supposing to_be pillars, they_gave to_me and Barnabas the_right hands of_fellowship, in_order_that we may_go to the pagans, and they to the circumcision, 10only that we_may_be_remembering about_the poor, that I_was_ also _earnest to_do this same thing.

2:11 Paul scolds Peter

11But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face, because he had messed up. 12He’d been eating with non-Jews, but when Yacob and companions arrived, he about-faced and started eating separately because he was afraid of being criticised by the strict Jews. 13The other Jews with him were also being hypocrites, so much so that even Barnabas joined their hypocrisy, 14but when I saw that they weren’t being honest with the truth of the good message, I had to say to Peter in front of everybody, “If you Jews are living more like non-Jews and not like strict Jews, how can you force non-Jews to obey all the Jewish traditions?

11But when came Kaʸfas to Antioⱪeia, I_resisted against_him to ^his_face, because he_was having_been_condemned.
12For/Because before the time some to_come from Yakōbos, he_was_eating_with with the pagans, but when they_came, he_was_shrinking_back and was_setting_ himself _apart, fearing the ones of the_circumcision.
13And the rest of_the_Youdaiōns were_acting_hypocritically with_him also, so_that even Barnabas was_carried_away by_the hypocrisy of_them.
14But when I_saw that they_are_ not _walking_straight with the truth of_the good_message, I_said to_ the _Kaʸfas before all:
If you a_Youdaios, being paganly and not Youdaiōns are_living, how are_you_compelling the pagans to_be_Judaizing?

2:15 You can’t be saved by obeying rules

15We follow Jewish laws and not the customs of other nations, 16but we know that we’re not saved by following rules[ref] but only by faith in Yeshua the messiah. So we’ve believed in Yeshua the messiah so that we can be made guiltless by our faith in the messiah, and not by obeying all those rules, because all of those rules can never make any person guiltless. 17However if we attempt to be made guiltless through the messiah yet find that we’re sinners, does that mean that the messiah is servant to sin? That could never be so! 18If I rebuild what I’ve already torn down, that would show me to be a law-breaker. 19[ref]It was the law that showed me that I needed die to the idea of following the law so that I could live to serve God instead. I was executed on a stake along with the messiah 20and I’m not living any more, but it’s the messiah now living in me. The way that my body stays alive now is by living by faith in God’s son—the one who loved me and allowed himself to be executed for me. 21I’m not rejecting God’s grace, because if the law could make me guiltless, that would mean that the messiah died unnecessarily.


15We are Youdaiōns by_nature and not sinners of the_pagans, 16but having_known that a_person is_ not _being_justified by works of_law, if not through faith in_Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) chosen_one/messiah, even we believed in Yaʸsous chosen_one/messiah, in_order_that we_may_be_justified by faith in_chosen_one/messiah, and not by works of_law, because any flesh will_ not _be_being_justified by the_works of_law.
17But if seeking to_be_justified in chosen_one/messiah, we_ ourselves _were_found also sinners, consequently is chosen_one/messiah a_servant of_sin?
Never it_might_become.
18For/Because if I_torn_ that _down, I_am_building these things again, I_am_demonstrating a_transgressor myself.
19For/Because I through the_law died_off to_the_law, in_order_that I_may_live to_god.
I_have_been_Crucified_with with_chosen_one/messiah,
20and I_am_living, no_longer it_is I, but chosen_one/messiah is_living in me, and what I_am_ now _living in the_flesh, I_am_living in faith which in_the son of_ the _god, the one having_loved me, and having_given_over himself for me.
21I_am_ not _rejecting the grace of_ the _god, because/for if righteousness is through the_law, consequently chosen_one/messiah died_off undeservedly.

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