New Testament · Letters

Galatians chapter 2

Then, fourteen years later, I went up to again with , and I brought along too.I went because that I should. And I laid out for them the that I’ve been announcing among —though I did this privately with the —to make sure I wasn’t running, or hadn’t already run, for nothing.But not even Titus, who was with me—a —was forced to be .This issue came up because some had been smuggled in—people who snuck in to spy on the we have in , so they could drag us back into .We didn’t give in to them for even a moment, so that the would be preserved for you.As for those who were —whatever they used to be makes no difference to me; —those recognized leaders added nothing to my message.Instead, they saw that I had been entrusted with the good news for the , just as had been entrusted with it for the circumcised.Because the same God who Peter as an to the circumcised also worked through me as an ambassador to the non-Jewish people.And when , Peter, and John—the ones recognized as —saw the given to me, they with Barnabas and me as a sign of . We would go to the non-Jewish people, and they would go to the circumcised.They only asked that we remember —which was already something I was eager to do.But when Peter came to , I , because he was clearly in the wrong.Before certain people came from James, Peter used to non-Jewish believers. But when they arrived, he started pulling back and separating himself, because he was afraid of the .The rest of the Jewish believers joined in his too, so that even Barnabas got in their act.But when I saw that they weren’t with the truth of the good news, I said to Peter : “If you, a Jewish person, have been living like a non-Jewish person and not like a Jewish person, how can you now force non-Jewish people to live like Jews?”“We are , not .Yet we know that no one is by doing what demands, but only through in the One Jesus. So we too have put our trust in the One Jesus, so that we could be made right with God through trust in the One—and not by doing what the law demands—because no human being will ever be made right with God by doing what the law demands.But if, while trying to be made right with God through the One, we ourselves turn out to be too—does that make the One an ? Because if I the very system I tore down, I prove that I was wrong to tear it down in the first place.Because through the law, I —so that I could live for God.I have been . I am alive, but it’s no longer me living—it’s . The life I now live in this body, I live by the , who loved me and for me.I’m not going to God’s . Because if being comes through the law, then .