Galatians 2

Revised Geneva Translation

2 Then, fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took with me Titus also.

² And I went up by revelation and declared to them that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles (but privately to those who were the chief, lest by any means I should run - or had run - in vain).

³ But not even Titus - who was with me, though he were a Grecian - was compelled to be circumcised,

⁴ This was because of the false brethren who were craftily sent in; and crept in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into bondage.

⁵ But we gave them no place, not even for an hour, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.

⁶ But by those who seemed to be great, I was not taught (whatever they were in time past, I am nothing the better; God accepts no man’s person) For those who are the chief have added nothing to me above what I had.

⁷ But on the contrary, when they saw that the Gospel was committed to me over the uncircumcision, as the Gospel over the circumcision was to Peter:

⁸ (For he who was mighty by Peter in the Apostleship over the circumcision, was also mighty by me toward the Gentiles.)

⁹ And when James and Cephas and John knew of the grace that was given to me - who are counted as pillars - they gave to me and to Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should preach to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision,

¹⁰ warning only that we should remember the poor (which I was also diligent to do).

¹¹ And when Peter had come to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. For he was to be condemned.

¹² For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they had come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

¹³ And the other Jews likewise played the hypocrites with him. So much so that Barnabas was led away with them by their hypocrisy.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they did not go the right way to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter before all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, why constrain the Gentiles to do like the Jews?

¹⁵ “We, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

¹⁶ “know that a man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we, I say, have believed in Jesus Christ; that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law. Because, by the works of the Law, no flesh shall be justified.

¹⁷ “If then, while we seek to be made righteous by Christ, we ourselves are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin? Absolutely not!

¹⁸ “For if I build again the things that I have destroyed, I make myself a trespasser.

¹⁹ “For I, through the Law, am dead to the Law, that I might live to God.

²⁰ “I am crucified with Christ, but I live; yet not I anymore, but Christ lives in me. And, in that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith in the Son of God, Who has loved me and given Himself for me.

²¹ “I do not abrogate the grace of God. For if righteousness is by the Law, then Christ died for nothing.”