CHAP. II.
The apostle's preaching was
approved of by the other apostles.
The gentiles were
not to be constrained to the
observation of the law.
1 Then fourteen years
after, I went up again
to Jerusalem with Barnabas,
taking Titus also with me.
2 And I went up according
to revelation: and communicated
to them the gospel,
which I preach among the
gentiles, but apart to them
who seemed to be something:
lest perhaps I should run, or
had run in vain.
3 But neither Titus, who
was with me, being a gentile,
was compelled to be circumcised:
4 But because of false brethren
unawares brought in,
who came in privately to spy
our liberty, which we have
in Christ Jesus, that they
might bring us into bondage:
5 To whom we yielded not
by subjection, no not for an
hour, that the truth of the gospel
might continue with you.
6 But of them who seemed
to be something, (what they
were some time, it is nothing
to me, God accepteth not
the person of man) for to me,
they that seemed to be something,
added nothing.
7 But contrariwise, when
they had seen that to me was
committed note the gospel of
the uncircumcision, as to Peter
was that of the circumcision.
8 (For he who wrought
in Peter to the apostleship of
the circumcision, wrought in
me also among the gentiles.)
9 And when they had
known the grace that was given
to me, James and Cephas
and John, who seemed to be
pillars, gave to me and Barnabas
the right hands of fellowship:
that we should go
to the gentiles, and they to
the circumcision:
10 Only that we should be
mindful of the poor: which
same thing also I was careful
to do.
11 But when Cephas was
come to Antioch, note I withstood
-- --
him to the face, because
he was to be blamed.
12 For before that some
came from James, he did eat
with the gentiles: but when
they were come, he withdrew
and separated himself, fearing
them who were of the circumcision.
13 And to his dissimulation
the rest of the Jews consented,
so that Barnabas also
was led by them into that dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that
they walked not uprightly
unto the truth of the gospel,
I said to Cephas before them
all: If thou, being a Jew,
livest after the manner of the
gentiles, and not as the Jews
do, how dost thou compel
the gentiles to live as do the
Jews?
15 We by nature are Jews,
and not of the gentiles sinners.
16 But knowing that a
man is not justified by the
works of the law, but by the
faith of Jesus Christ; we also
believe in Christ Jesus,
that we may be justified by
the faith of Christ, and not
by the works of the law: because
by the works of the law
no flesh shall be justified.
17 But if while we seek to
be justified in Christ, we ourselves
also are found sinners;
is Christ then the minister of
sin? God forbid.
18 For if I build up again
the things which I have destroyed,
I make myself a transgressor.
19 For I, through the law,
am dead to the law, that I
may live to God: with Christ
I am nailed to the cross.
20 And I live, now not I;
but Christ liveth in me. And
that I live now in the flesh:
I live in the faith of the Son
of God, who loved me, and
delivered himself for me.
21 I cast not away the
grace of God. For if justice
be by the law, then Christ
died in vain.
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Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
