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| [1]And again, after fourteen years, I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas; and I took with me Titus. |
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| [2]And I went up by revelation: and I explained to them the gospel which I announce among the Gentiles; and I stated it to them who were esteemed prominent, between myself and them: lest I should have run, or might run in vain. |
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| [3]Also Titus, who was with me, and was a Gentile, was not compelled to be circumcised. |
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| [4]And in regard to the false brethren, who had crept in to spy out the liberty we have in Jesus the Messiah, in order to bring me under subjection; |
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| [5]not for the space of an hour, did we throw ourselves into subjection to them; so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you. |
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| [6]And they who were esteemed prominent, (what they were, I care not; for God regardeth not the persons of men,)even these persons added nothing to me. |
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| [7]But, otherwise; for they saw, that the gospel of the uncircumcision was intrusted to me, as to Cephas was intrusted that of the circumcision. |
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| [8]For he that was operative with Cephas in the legateship of the circumcision, was also operative with me in the legateship of the Gentiles. |
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| [9]And James, Cephas, and John, who were accounted pillars, when they perceived the grace that was given to me, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we [should labor] among the Gentiles, and they among the circumcision. |
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| [10]Only [they desired] that we would be mindful of the needy; and I was solicitous to do the same. |
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| [11]But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I rebuked him to his face; because they were stumbled by him. |
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| [12]For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles: but when they came, he withdrew himself, and separated; because he was afraid of them of the circumcision. |
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| [13]And the rest of the Jews also were with him in this thing; insomuch that even Barnabas was induced to regard persons. |
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| [14]And when I saw, that they did not walk correctly, in the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas, before them all: If thou art a Jew, and livest in the Gentile way, and not in the Jewish, why dost thou compel the Gentiles to live in the Jewish way? |
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| [15]For if we, who are Jews by nature, and are not sinners of the Gentiles, |
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| [16]because we know that a man is not made just by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus the Messiah; even we have believed in Jesus the Messiah, in order to be made just by faith in the Messiah, and not by the works of the law: for, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is made just. |
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| [17]And if, while we seek to become just by the Messiah, we are found to be ourselves sinners, is Jesus the Messiah therefore the minister of sin? Far be it ! |
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| [18]For if I should build up again the things I had demolished, I should show myself to be a transgressor of the precept. |
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| [19]For I, by the law, have become dead to the law, that I might live to God; and I am crucified with the Messiah. |
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| [20]And henceforth it is no more I who live, but the Messiah liveth 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. |
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| [21]I do not spurn the grace of God. For if righteousness is by means of the law, the Messiah died in vain. |
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