Oct. 5
Galatians 2
Gal 2:1 Then after a
period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas,
taking Titus also with me.
Gal 2:2 I went up by
revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among
the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear
that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
Gal 2:3 But not even
Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be
circumcised.
Gal 2:4 This was
because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to
spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might
bring us into bondage;
Gal 2:5 to whom we gave
no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of
the Good News might continue with you.
Gal 2:6 But from those
who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no
difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say,
who were respected imparted nothing to me,
Gal 2:7 but to the
contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News
for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the
circumcision
Gal 2:8 (for he who
appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me
also to the Gentiles);
Gal 2:9 and when they
perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John,
they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the
right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they
to the circumcision.
Gal 2:10 They only
asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to
do.
Gal 2:11 But when Peter
came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood
condemned.
Gal 2:12 For before
some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they
came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of
the circumcision.
Gal 2:13 And the rest
of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was
carried away with their hypocrisy.
Gal 2:14 But when I saw
that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good
News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew,
live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel
the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
Gal 2:15 "We,
being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
Gal 2:16 yet knowing
that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith
in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be
justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law,
because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Gal 2:17 But if, while
we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found
sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
Gal 2:18 For if I build
up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a
law-breaker.
Gal 2:19 For I, through
the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
Gal 2:20 I have been
crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ
living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Gal 2:21 I don't make
void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then
Christ died for nothing!"