Then
fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem
with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
02 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.
03 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a
Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
04 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:
05 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not
for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might
continue with you.
06 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:
07 But contrariwise, when they saw that the
gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto
me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto
Peter;
08 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to
the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was
mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
09 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.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
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