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2 : 1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
2 : 2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before thosewho seemed influential) the gospel thatI proclaim among the Gentiles,in order to make sure I was not running or had notrun in vain.
2 : 3 But even Titus, who was with me,was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.
2 : 4 Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in&emdash;whoslipped in to spy outour freedom that we have in Christ Jesus,so that they might bring us into slavery&emdash;
2 : 5 to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so thatthe truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
2 : 6 And from thosewho seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me;God shows no partiality)&emdash;those, I say, who seemed influentialadded nothing to me.
2 : 7 On the contrary, when they saw that I had beenentrusted withthe gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised
2 : 8 (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
2 : 9 and when James and Cephas and John,who seemed to bepillars, perceived thegrace that was given to me, theygave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
2 : 10 Only, they asked us to remember the poor,the very thing I was eager to do.
2 : 11 Butwhen Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed himto his face, because he stood condemned.
2 : 12 For before certain men came from James,he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearingthe circumcision party.
2 : 13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
2 : 14 But when I saw that theirconduct was not in step withthe truth of the gospel, I said to Cephasbefore them all,If you, though a Jew,live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?
2 : 15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and notGentile sinners;
2 : 16 yet we know thata person is not justifiedby works of the lawbut through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law,because by works of the law no one will be justified.
2 : 17 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were foundto be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
2 : 18 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
2 : 19 For through the law Idied to the law, so that I mightlive to God.
2 : 20 I have beencrucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who livesin me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,who loved me andgave himself for me.
2 : 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, forif righteousnesswere through the law,then Christ died for no purpose.