1 Fourteen years after I went
up again to Jerusalem, with
Barnabas, and took Titus also
with me:
2 and I went up according
to revelation, and
communicated to them that
gospel, which I preach among
the Gentiles; but privately to
those who were of note, lest the
pains, that I have already
taken, or may hereafter take
in the gospel, should be in vain.
3 however, Titus who was
then with me, being a Greek,
was not compelled to be circumcised:
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4 and as to the false
brethren, who insidiously crept
in to spy out our liberty which
we have by Christ Jesus,
that they might bring us into
servitude;
5 I did not show
them the lest compliance by
way of submission, that the
doctrine of the gospel might
remain among you.
6 But as for those who were
men of real eminency, how
considerable soever they were
heretofore, it does not any
ways affect me; God accepts
not the person of any man:
for they who were of note,
in conference with me, had
nothing new to add.
7 on the
contrary, when they perceived
that I had the province
of preaching the gospel to the
Gentiles, as Peter had that of
preaching it to the Jews,
8 (for
he that had wrought powerfully
in Peter with respect to
his apostleship among the Jews,
had also wrought powerfully
in me upon account of the Gentiles:)
and when James,
9 Peter,
and John, who were esteemed
to be pillars, perceived
the favour that was bestowed
on me, they admitted me
and Barnabas into fellowship,
and agreed, that we should go
to the Gentiles, and they to the
Jews.
10 only they recommended
to us to get collections for the
poor in Judea: which I was
very careful to do.
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11 But when Peter came to
Antioch, I opposed him to his
face, for he was to be blamed.
12 for till certain Jews came
thither from James, he used
to eat with the Gentiles; but
when they were come, he
withdrew and separated himself,
for fear of those, who
were for circumcision:
13 and
the rest of the Jews dissembled
likewise with him, insomuch
that Barnabas himself
was carried away with their
hypocrisy.11Q0013
14 but when I saw,
they conformed not their conduct
to the truth of the gospel,
I said to Peter before them
all: if you being a Jew, live
after the manner of the Gentiles,
and not according to that
of the Jews, why do you constrain
the Gentiles to judaize?
15 We are Jews by birth, and
not of the sinful race of the
Gentiles,
16 yet 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 him, and
not by the works of the law, by
which there is no justification.
17 Now if it be a sin to seek for
justification by Christ, then is
Christ the minister of sin,
which cannot be.
18 on the contrary,
if I re-establish what I
have demolish'd, I show myself
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a prevaricator.
19 for by one
law, I am dead to the other
law, that I might live unto
God:
20 I am crucified with
Christ, it is not I that now
live, but Christ that liveth in
me; the life I have in this
body I live by faith in the son of
God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate
the grace of God: for if
justification be by the law,
Christ died to no purpose.
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