Galatians:2:11-21

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* But when Cephas came to Antioch I opposed him to his face , because he stood condemned . * For before certain men came from James , he ate with the Gentiles ; but when they came he drew back and separated himself , fearing the circumcision party . * And with him the rest of the Jews acted insincerely , so that even Barnabas was carried away by their insincerity . * But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel , I said to Cephas before them all , "If you , though a Jew , live like a Gentile and not like a Jew , how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews ?" * We ourselves , who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners , * yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ , even we have believed in Christ Jesus , in order to be justified by faith in Christ , and not by works of the law , because by works of the law shall no one be justified . * But if , in our endeavor to be justified in Christ , we ourselves were found to be sinners , is Christ then an agent of sin ? Certainly not ! * But if I build up again those things which I tore down , then I prove 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 who 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 for me . * I do not nullify the grace of God ; for if justification were through the law , then Christ died to no purpose .

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