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Galations 2,
NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION
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Then after
fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus
along with me.
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I went up in
response to a revelation. Then I laid before them (though only in a
private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I
proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not
running, or had not run, in vain.
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But even Titus,
who was with me, was not compelled to be circumcised, though he was a
Greek.
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But because of
false believers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the
freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us —
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we did not
submit to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might
always remain with you.
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And from those
who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they actually were
makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) — those leaders
contributed nothing to me.
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On the contrary,
when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the
uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the
circumcised
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(for he who
worked through Peter making him an apostle to the circumcised also
worked through me in sending me to the Gentiles),
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and when James
and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace
that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand
of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to
the circumcised.
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They asked only
one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was
eager to do.
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But when Cephas
came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood
self-condemned;
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for until
certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But
after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the
circumcision faction.
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And the other
Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray
by their hypocrisy.
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But when I saw
that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I
said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a
Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like
Jews?”
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We ourselves are
Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
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yet we know that
a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in
Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we
might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the
law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.
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But if, in our
effort to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have been found to be
sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
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But if I build
up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that
I am a transgressor.
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For through the law I died to the law, so that
I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ;
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and it is no longer I who live, but it is
Christ who lives in me. And the life 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 nullify
the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then
Christ died for nothing.
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