Galatians 2

¹Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along as well.

²I went up because of a revelation, and I set before them the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles — but I did so privately before those who seemed to be of repute — lest somehow I was running or had run in vain.

³But not even Titus, the one with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

⁴But this was because of secretly brought-in false brothers, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us —

⁵to whom we did not yield in subjection even for an hour, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

⁶But from those who seemed to be something — what they once were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality — for those who seemed to be of repute contributed nothing additional to me.

⁷But on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised

⁸for the one who worked effectively in Peter for apostleship to the circumcision worked also in me for the Gentiles.

⁹and when James and Cephas and John — those who seemed to be pillars — recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, so that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

¹⁰Only that we remember the poor — which very thing I was eager to do.

¹¹But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

¹²For before certain ones came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

¹³And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

¹⁴But when I saw that they were not walking straight according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: 'If you, though you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how do you compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?'

¹⁵We ourselves are Jews by birth and not sinners from among the Gentiles.

¹⁶Yet knowing that a person is not justified by works of law but through faith in Jesus Christ, we ourselves also believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of law, because by works of law no flesh will be justified.

¹⁷But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ therefore a servant of sin? May it never be!

¹⁸For if I rebuild the very things I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

¹⁹For I through the law died to the law, so that I might live to God.

²⁰I no longer live, but Christ lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.

²¹I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.