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Chapter 2 |
| 1 | Then fourteen
years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me
also. |
| 2 |
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that
gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of
reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. |
| 3 |
But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be
circumcised: |
| 4
| And that because of false brethren unawares brought in,
who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that
they might bring us into bondage: |
| 5 | To whom we gave place by
subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue
with you. |
| 6
| But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they
were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who
seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: |
| 7 | But
contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed
unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; |
| 8 | (For he
that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the
same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) |
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9 | And when James, Cephas,
and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me,
they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go
unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. |
| 10 | Only they
would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to
do. |
| 11 |
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the
face, because he was to be blamed. |
| 12 | For before that certain came
from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew
and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. |
| 13 |
And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also
was carried away with their dissimulation. |
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14 | But when I saw that
they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto
Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of
Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as
do the Jews? |
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15 | We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the
Gentiles, |
| 16
| Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the
law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ,
that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the
law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. |
| 17 | But
if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found
sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. |
| 18 | For
if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a
transgressor. |
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19 | For I through the law am dead to the law, that I
might live unto God. |
| 20 | I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I
live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for
me. |
| 21 |
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come
by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. |
