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Galations 2,
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Fourteen years
later I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took
Titus along also.
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I went in
response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach
among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who seemed to be
leaders, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain.
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Yet not even
Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he
was a Greek.
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This matter
arose because some false brothers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on
the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.
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We did not give
in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain
with you.
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As for those who
seemed to be important—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God
does not judge by external appearance — those men added nothing to my
message.
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On the contrary,
they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel
to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the Jews.
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For God, who was
at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at
work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles.
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James, Peter and
John, those reputed to be 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 Jews.
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All they asked
was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was
eager to do.
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When Peter came
to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the
wrong.
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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.
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The other Jews
joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas
was led astray.
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When I saw that
they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to
Peter 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?
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“We who are Jews
by birth and not
‘Gentile
sinners’
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know that a man
is not justified by observing 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 in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the
law no one will be justified.
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“If, while we
seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are
sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!
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If I rebuild
what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker.
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For through the law I died to the law so that
I might live for God.
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I have been crucified with Christ and I no
longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I
live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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I 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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