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Galatians Chapter 2

¹Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me as well. ²By revelation I went up privately before those who were respected and laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. ³But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. ⁴This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in AnointedOne Jesus, so they might bring us into slavery, ⁵to 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. ⁶But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to people) they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, ⁷but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised. ⁸For he who worked through Peter in the ambassadorship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles. ⁹When they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. ¹⁰They only asked us to remember the poor - which very thing I was also zealous to do.

¹¹But, when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face because he stood condemned. ¹²For 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. ¹³And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. ¹⁴But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter in front of 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?

¹⁵We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile shortcomers, ¹⁶yet knowing that a person is not justified by the actions of the law but through faith in Jesus AnointedOne, even we believed in AnointedOne Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in AnointedOne and not by the actions of the law, because no flesh will be justified by actions of the law. ¹⁷But if, while we sought to be justified in AnointedOne, we ourselves were also found to be shortcomers, is AnointedOne a servant of sin? Certainly not! ¹⁸For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. ¹⁹For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God. ²⁰I have been crucified with AnointedOne, and it is no longer I who live, but AnointedOne lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who selflessly-loved me and gave himself up for me. ²¹I don't despise the grace of God, for if righteousness is through the law, then AnointedOne died for nothing!"