Galatians 2
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Then fourteen years after I went up again
to Jerusalem Acts 11.30 ; 15.2 with
Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
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And I went up by revelation, and
communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the
Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by
any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
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But neither Titus, who was with me, being
a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
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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:
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to whom we gave place by subjection, no,
not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with
you.
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But of those who seemed to be somewhat,
(whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no
man's person: Deut. 10.17 ) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference
added nothing to me:
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but contrariwise, when they saw that the
gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the
gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
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(for he that wrought effectually in Peter
to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me
toward the Gentiles;)
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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.
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Only they would that we should
remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to
do.
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Paul Rebukes Peter at
Antioch |
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But when Peter was come to An'ti-och, I
withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
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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.
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And the other Jews dissembled likewise
with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their
dissimulation.
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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?
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We who are Jews by nature, and not
sinners of the Gentiles,
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knowing that a man is not justified by
the works of the law, Ps. 143.2 · Rom. 3.20 but by the faith of Jesus Christ, Rom. 3.22 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.
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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.
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For if I build again the things which I
destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
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For I through the law am dead to the law,
that I might live unto God.
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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.
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I do not frustrate the grace of God: for
if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in
vain.
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