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Galations 2,
NEW KING JAMES VERSION
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Then after
fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took
Titus with me.
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And I went up by
revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among
the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any
means I might run, or had run, in vain.
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Yet not even
Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
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And this
occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by
stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they
might bring us into bondage),
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to whom we did
not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel
might continue with you.
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But from those
who seemed to be something--whatever they were, it makes no difference
to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man--for those who seemed to
be something added nothing to me.
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But on the
contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been
committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter
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(for He who
worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also
worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),
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and when James,
Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had
been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of
fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the
circumcised.
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They desired
only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was
eager to do.
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Now when Peter
had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be
blamed;
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for before
certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when
they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of
the circumcision.
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And the rest of
the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was
carried away with their hypocrisy.
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But when I saw
that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said
to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of
Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as
Jews?
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We who are Jews
by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
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knowing that a
man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus
Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be
justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the
works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
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“But if, while
we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners,
is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!
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For if I build
again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
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For I through the law died to the law that I
might live to God.
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I have been crucified with Christ; it is no
longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live
in the flesh 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 comes through the law, then
Christ died in vain.”
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