[Galatians 2]

 

             ^2:1 Thereafter, I went-up again to Jerusalem fourteen years afterward with Barnabas, also took Titus together-with me. {Acts 15} ^2:2 But I went-up according-to revelation, and I myself submitted to them the good-news which I am preaching among the Gentiles (but privately before the ones of repute), lest I may be running or had ran in vain.

             ^2:3 But not even Titus who was together-with me, being a Greek, was urged to be circumcised. ^2:4 But it was because of smuggled in false^* brethren, those who entered in beside us to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, and in-order-that they might enslave us, ^2:5 to whom, even ^*for an hour, we did not yield to their subjection, in-order-that the truth of the good-news might remain with you^°.

             ^2:6 Now they did not contribute anything to me, that is from the ones of repute and from the ones reputed to be something (for^* what sort of person they were previously, carries nothing of more-value-than that to me {i.e., utter sarcasm}; God does not receive the countenance of man!). ^2:7 But instead, they saw that I have been entrusted with the good-news of the uncircumcision, just-as Peter that of the circumcision ^2:8 (for^* he who worked in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision also worked in me to the Gentiles). ^2:9 And I knew the favor which was given to me after James and Cephas and John (the ones reputed to be pillars), gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, that^* indeed we should go to the Gentiles but they themselves should go to the circumcision, ^2:10 adding only that^* we should remember the poor, which I was diligent also to do^* this same thing.

 

             ^2:11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I stood against him to his face, because he was condemned. ^2:12 For^* he was eating together with the ones from the Gentiles before some came from James. But when they came, he was retreating back and separating^* himself, fearing the ones from the circumcision. ^2:13 And the rest of the Jews were also hypocrites together-with him, so-then even Barnabas was led away with their hypocrisy. ^2:14 But when I saw that they are not being straightforward with the truth of the good-news, I said to Peter before them all, If you, being^* a Jew, are living like-a-Gentile and not like-a-Jew, why are you urging the Gentiles to live like-a-Jew?

             ^2:15 We are Jews by nature and not sinners from the Gentiles, ^2:16 knowing that a man is not made righteous from the works of the law, if it is not through the faith of Jesus Christ. Also we believed into Christ Jesus, in-order-that we might be made righteous from the faith of Christ and not from the works of the law, because not any flesh will be made righteous from the works of the law.

             ^2:17 But if seeking to be made righteous in Christ, we ourselves were also found to be sinners, is then Christ a servant of sin? Let it not happen! ^2:18 For^* if I build up again these things which I have torn-down, I establish myself as a transgressor. ^2:19 For^* through the law I died to the law in-order-that I might live to God.

             ^2:20 I have been crucified together-with Christ. I am now no longer living, but Christ is living in me and that life which I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith, in the faith of the Son of God, who loved^* me and gave himself up on my behalf. ^2:21 I am not nullifying the grace of God; for^* if righteousness is through the law, consequently^*, Christ died undeservedly.