Galatians, Chapter 2

1. Then fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.    2. And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of good reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.    3. But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:    4. And that because of false brethren brought in without our knowledge, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:    5. To whom we yielded in submission, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.    6. But from these who seemed to be something, (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me: God accepts no man's person:) for those who seemed to be something in conference added nothing to me:    7. But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed to me, as the gospel of the circumcision was to Peter;    8. (For he that worked effectively in Peter in the apostleship to the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)    9. And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we should go to the heathen, and they to the circumcision.    10. Only they desired that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was eager to do.    11. But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed.    12. For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles: but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.    13. And the other Jews also acted falsely with him; to the extent that Barnabas also was carried away with their false behavior.    14. But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live according to the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?    15. We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,    16. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified through the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.    17. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are also found to be sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.    18. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.    19. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live to God.    20. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.    21. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ died in vain.