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Paul Accepted by the Apostles
Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also.
Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also.
The Council at Jerusalem
Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with [me];
Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with [me];
I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain.
and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous [among them], lest in any way I run or had run in vain;
Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
(but neither was Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, compelled to be circumcised;)
This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.
and [it was] on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.
As for those who were held in high esteem — whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism — they added nothing to my message.
But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat -- whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous communicated nothing;
but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of the circumcision,
For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles.
(for he that wrought in Peter for [the] apostleship of the circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)
and recognising the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were conspicuous as being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas [the] right hands of fellowship, that *we* [should go] to the nations, and *they* to the circumcision;
All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.
only that we should remember the poor, which same thing also I was diligent to do.
Paul Opposes Cephas
When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
Paul Confronts Peter
But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to [the] face, because he was to be condemned:
But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to [the] face, because he was to be condemned:
For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.
for before that certain came from James, he ate with [those of] the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of [the] circumcision;
The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by their dissimulation.
When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?
But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If *thou*, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?
“We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles
We, Jews by nature, and not sinners of [the] nations,
but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of works of law [nor] but by the faith of Jesus Christ, *we* also have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on the principle of [the] faith of Christ; and not of works of law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be justified.
“But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!
Now if in seeking to be justified in Christ we also have been found sinners, then [is] Christ minister of sin? Far be the thought.
If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.
For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again, I constitute myself a transgressor.
“For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.
For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but Christ lives in me; but [in] that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.