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其他使徒接納保羅

過了十四年,我再次上耶路撒冷去,這次是和巴拿巴,並且帶著提多一同去的。 我是順從啟示去的;在那裡我對他們說明我在外族人中所傳的福音,私下講了給那些有名望的人聽,免得我從前或現在都白跑了。 與我同行的提多,雖然是希臘人,也沒有強迫他受割禮; 這是因為有些混進來的假弟兄,暗暗地來偵查我們在基督耶穌裡享有的自由,為的是要轄制我們。 對這些人,我們一點也沒有讓步妥協,為了要使福音的真理存留在你們中間。 至於那些被認為有名望的人(無論他們從前怎麼樣,都與我無關; 神不以外貌取人),他們並沒有給我增加甚麼; 反而因為看見我受託傳福音給沒有受割禮的人,就像彼得受託傳福音給受割禮的人一樣, (因為運行在彼得裡面,使他作受割禮者的使徒的那一位,也運行在我裡面,使我作外族人的使徒,) 又知道我蒙了 神的恩,那幾位被譽為柱石的雅各、磯法和約翰,就向我和巴拿巴伸出右手互相許諾,我們要到外族人那裡去傳福音,他們要到受割禮的人那裡去傳福音; 10 只是要我們記念窮人,這本來也是我一向熱心作的。

彼得受責備

11 可是,磯法到了安提阿的時候,因為他有該責備的地方,我就當面反對他。 12 從雅各那裡來的人還沒有到以前,他和外族人一同吃飯;但他們來到了,他因為怕那些守割禮的人,就從外族人中退出來,和他們分開。 13 其餘的猶太人也和他一同裝假,甚至連巴拿巴也受了影響,跟著他們裝假。 14 但我一見他們所行的不合福音的真理,就當眾對磯法說:“你是猶太人,生活既然像外族人而不像猶太人,怎麼還勉強外族人跟隨猶太人的規矩呢?”

因信稱義

15 我們生來是猶太人,不是外族中的罪人; 16 既然知道人稱義不是靠行律法,而是因信耶穌基督,我們也就信了基督耶穌,使我們因信基督稱義,不是靠行律法;因為沒有人能靠行律法稱義。 17 如果我們尋求在基督裡稱義,卻仍然是罪人,難道基督是使人犯罪的嗎?絕對不是。 18 我若重建我所拆毀的,就證明自己是個有過犯的人。 19 我藉著律法已經向律法死了,使我可以向 神活著。 20 我已經與基督同釘十字架;現在活著的,不再是我,而是基督活在我裡面;如今在肉身中活著的我,是因信 神的兒子而活的;他愛我,為我捨己。 21 我不廢棄 神的恩;如果義是藉著律法而來的,基督就白白地死了。

Then, after arbah esrey shanim (fourteen years), again (Acts 11:30) I went up to Yerushalayim with Bar-Nabba, having taken with me also Titos.

Yet I went up according to a chazon (revelation), and I laid before them the Besuras HaGeulah which I proclaim among the Goyim, but I did this privately to the men of repute (2:9), lest I should run, or should prove to have run, L’TOHU (in vain) [YESHAYAH 49:4; 65:23].

But Titos, the one with me, a Yevani (Greek), was not compelled to undergo bris milah.

But because of the achei sheker (false brothers) b’Moshiach, the ones secretly brought in, the ones who crept in to spy out our DEROR ("freedom" VAYIKRA 25:10) which we have in Moshiach Yehoshua al menat (in order that) they might enslave us.

To these enslavers not for one hour did we yield in subjection, that HaEmes of the Besuras HaGeulah might continue and remain with you (Galatian Goyim).

But from the men of repute whatever they once were matters nothing to me, ki ein masso panim im Hashem (for there is no respect of persons with G-d, no partiality) for to me these men of repute added nothing.

But, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the Besuras HaGeulah for those without the bris milah, just as Kefa was for those with the bris milah,

For the One having worked in Kefa for a Shlichus to those with the bris milah also worked in me for a Shlichus to the Goyim.

And realizing the Chen v’Chesed Hashem having been given to me, Ya’akov and Kefa and Yochanan, the men of repute, the ones seeming to be Ammudei HaKehillah (Pillars of the Kehillah), extended to me and to Bar-Nabba the yad yeminam (right hands) as a sign of Achavah B’Moshiach (Brotherhood in Moshiach), that we should be for those of the Goyim, but they for those of the bris milah,

10 Only that we should remember the Aniyim (the Poor), the very thing which I was also eager to do.

11 But when Kefa came to Antioch, I stood against him to his face, because there was found in him a dvar ashmah (a thing of guilt, condemnation).

12 For, before certain ones [Jerusalem visitors] came from Ya’akov, Kefa was as a matter of course sitting at tish at betzi’at halechem (breaking of bread) at the Seudos Moshiach with the Goyim; but, when they came, Kefa drew back and was separating himself, fearing the ones [the Jerusalem party] of the bris milah (Ac 15:5).

13 And the rest of the Yehudim who were ma’aminim b’Moshiach joined with Kefa in this dissembling, so that even Bar-Nabba was carried away with their tzevi’ut (hypocrisy).

14 But when I saw that their halichah, their hitnahagut (conduct) was not the Derech HaYashar (Straight Way) with respect to HaEmes of HaBesuras HaGeulah, I said to Kefa before all, "If you, being a Yehudi, have a hitnahagut that is according to the Derech Goyim and not the Derech Yehudim, how do you compel the Goyim to live as the Yehudim?

15 We ourselves are Yehudim by birth and not Goyishe chote’im (sinners).

16 Yet we have da’as that a man cannot be YITZDAK IM HASHEM ("be justified with G-d" IYOV 25:4) by chukim of the Torah (laws of Torah), but through emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua." And we have come to have bitachon in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, that we can be YITZDAK IM HASHEM ("be justified with G-d" IYOV 25:4) by emunah in Moshiach and not by chukim of the Torah, because by chukim of the Torah KOL CHAI LO YITZDAK ("all living shall not be justified" TEHILLIM 143:2).

17 Now, if, by seeking to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM in Moshiach, we ourselves were found also to be chote’im (sinners) [2:15; Ro 3:9,23], then in that case is Moshiach a kohen for iniquity, a minister serving sin? Chas v’Shalom (G-d forbid!)!

18 For if what I destroyed, these things I again rebuild (1:23; 5:2), I display myself to be a poshei’a (transgressor).

19 For I, through the Torah (3:13), died in relation to the chok (Ro 7:4-6), so that I might live to Hashem. With Moshiach I have been talui al haetz (hanging on the tree, DEVARIM 21:23).

20 But it is no longer Anochi (I) who lives, but Moshiach who lives in me, and the Chayyim I now live in the basar, I live by emunah, emunah in the Ben HaElohim [Moshiach], the one having ahavah (agape) for me and having given himself over, on my behalf.

21 I do not set aside the Chen v’Chesed Hashem; for if the MAH ("how") an ENOSH ("man") is to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM (IYOV 25:4) is found through chumra (legalism), then Moshiach died for nothing and L’TOHU (in vain) [Isa 49:4; 65:23].