Galatians:2:11-21

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* Now when Peter had come to Antioch , I withstood him to his face , because he was to be blamed ; * for before certain men came from James , he would eat with the Gentiles ; but when they came , he withdrew and separated himself , fearing those who were of the circumcision . * And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him , so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy . * But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel , I said to Peter before them all , "If you , being a Jew , live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews , why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews ? * We who are Jews by nature , and not sinners of the Gentiles , * knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ , even we have believed in Christ Jesus , that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law ; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified . * "But if , while we seek to be justified by Christ , we ourselves also are found sinners , is Christ therefore a minister of sin ? Certainly not ! * For if I build again those things which I destroyed , I make myself a transgressor . * For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God . * I have been crucified with Christ ; it is no longer I who live , but Christ lives in me ; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God , who loved me and gave Himself for me . * I do not set aside the grace of God ; for if righteousness comes through the law , then Christ died in vain ."

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