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1 Then, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with
Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
2 I went up in response to a revelation and placed before
them the gospel which I proclaim among the Gentiles. But
I met privately with those who were recognized leaders,
lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.
3 But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was
forced to be circumcised.
4 This problem arose because some false brothers secretly
infiltrated us, to spy on our freedom which we have in Christ
Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.
5 But we did not surrender to them even for an instant, that
the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
6 But from those who were reputed to be influential, whoever
they were does not matter to me as God shows no favoritism.
Those influential ones added nothing to me.
7 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with
the gospel to the uncircumcision, just as Peter was to the
circumcision,
8 for he who worked in Peter making him an apostle to the
circumcision also worked in me to the Gentiles.
9 When James, Cephas and John, who were accepted to be pillars,
perceived the grace that was 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.
10 They asked only that we should remember the poor, which was
exactly what I had wanted to do anyway.

11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face,
because he should have been corrected.
12 For before certain men came from James, he ate with the
Gentiles. But when they arrived, he drew back and separated
himself, fearing those who belonged to the circumcision.
13 The rest of the Jews joined in his hypocrisy as well,
so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they did not walk in line with the
truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all,
“If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles, and not as
a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?
15 We who are Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners,
16 know that a man is not justified by the works of the law
but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believe on Christ
Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ,
and not by the works of the law, because by the works
of the law no one will be justified.
17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we
ourselves also were found to be sinners, is Christ
causing us to sin? Absolutely not!

18 For if I rebuild those things which I once destroyed,
I prove that I myself am a violator.
19 For through the law I died to the law, that I might
live to God.
20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer
I who live, but Christ living in me. So the life which
I now live in the flesh I live by faith, the faith which
is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not nullify the grace of God, because if righteousness
could come by means of the law, then Christ died for nothing!

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