ULT GAL Chapter 2

2 Then after 14 years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, also taking Titus along with me. 2 Now I went up according to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, but privately to the ones seeming to be important, lest I might run—or had run—in vain. 3 But not even Titus, the one with me, being a Greek, was forced to be circumcised. 4 But it was because of the secretly brought in false brothers, who came in secretly to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus so that they will enslave us, 5 we did not even yield in submission to them for an hour, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you. 6 But from the ones seeming to be something (what sort they were formerly matters nothing to me; God does not accept the face of man)—for, the ones seeming important added nothing to me. 7 But on the contrary, having seen that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcision, just as Peter to the circumcision 8 (for the one having worked in Peter for apostleship to the circumcision also worked in me to the Gentiles), 9 and having understood the grace having been given to me, James and Cephas and John, the ones seeming to be pillars, gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, so that we to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision, 10 only that we should continue to remember the poor, this same thing that I was also eager to do.

11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain ones came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles. But when they came, he was withdrawing and was separating himself, being afraid of the ones from the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also joined with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not walking correctly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of all of them, “If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews? 15 We are Jews by birth, and not sinners from the Gentiles; 16 but knowing that no man is justified by works of the law except through faith in Jesus Christ, we also believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law. For by works of the law not any flesh will be justified. 17 But if, seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were also found to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be! 18 For if I again rebuild those things which I destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor. 19 For I, through the law, died to the law so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, 20 and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And that which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith that is in the Son of God, the one having loved me and having given himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

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