12 從雅各那裡來的人還沒有抵達之前,彼得和外族的信徒一起吃飯。但那些人抵達以後,彼得因為怕那些堅持行割禮的猶太人批評,就與外族的信徒分開了。 13 其他的猶太基督徒也跟著彼得裝假,甚至連巴拿巴也隨從了他們的虛偽。 14 我看見他們不照福音的真理行,就當眾對彼得說:「你身為猶太人,如果行事為人像外族人,不像猶太人,又怎能強迫外族人按猶太人的規矩生活呢?」

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12 For before certain men came from James,(A) he used to eat with the Gentiles.(B) But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.(C) 13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas(D) was led astray.

14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel,(E) I said to Cephas(F) in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew.(G) How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?(H)

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