Galatians:2

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* Fourteen years later I went again to Jerusalem with Barnabas . I took Titus with me also . * I went in response to a revelation . I demonstrated to them the way I spread the good news among the people of the nations . I did this privately before them for they have a reputation . I am concerned that by any means I should be running , or had run , in vain . * Titus was with me and he was not persuaded to be circumcised . He is a Greek . * This occurred because of the false brothers brought in secretly . They came to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus . This was so they might bring us into bondage . * We did not yield to them for a moment or an hour ! That way the truth of the good news might continue with you . * Those who were recognized as important people did not add a single thing to my message . What sort of people they were makes no difference to me . God does not play favorites . * On the contrary , they saw that I had been entrusted with the good news to people who are not circumcised . Just as Peter had been entrusted with the good news to the people who are circumcised . * The one who made Peter an apostle to the Jewish people also made me an apostle to the people of the nations . * When they saw the grace that was given to me , James , Cephas and John , they who were known to be pillars , gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship . We were to go to the nations and they were to go to the people who are circumcised . * They wanted us to remember the poor . I was eager to do this very thing . * When Cephas came to Antioch , I openly resisted him because he was completely wrong . * He ate with the people of the nations until some men James sent arrived . When they arrived , he drew back and separated himself . He feared those who were of the circumcised people . * The rest of the Jews were hypocrites with him , so much that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy . * I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the good news . Therefore I said to Cephas , in front of them all : »If you , being a Jew , live as the nations do and not as the Jews , why do you compel the people of the nations to live like the Jews ?« * We are Jews by birth , and not sinners from the nations . * Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law , but through faith in Jesus Christ . We believed on Christ Jesus , that we might be righteous by faith in Christ , and not by the works of the law . The works of the law justify no one . * We sought to be righteous in Christ . And we were found to be sinners . Is Christ a minister of sin ? God forbid . * If I build up again the things that I destroyed , I prove myself a transgressor . * I , through the law , died to the law that I might live to God . * I have been impaled with Christ . It is no longer I that live , but Christ lives in me . The life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith . This is the faith that is in the Son of God . He loved me and gave himself up for me . * I do not reject the grace of God : for if righteousness is through the law , then Christ died for nothing .

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