CHAPTER 2
1 Then
fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus
with me also. 2 And I went up by revelation, and
communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but
privatelya
to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run,
in vain. 3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was
compelled to be circumcised: 4 And that because of false brethren
unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have
in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom
we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel
might continue with you. 6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat,
(whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s
person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing
to me: 7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the
uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was
unto Peter; 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the
apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the
Gentiles:) 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be
pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and
Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the
heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10 Only they would
that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
11 But when
Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be
blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat
with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself,
fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews
dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with
their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not
uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them
all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do
the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 15
We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith
of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be
justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the
works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we
seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is
therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I
build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the
Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not
frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then
Christ is dead in vain.
The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995. Oak
Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
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