Paul with other apostles in Jerusalem
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📚✭Then fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas✭, and took along Titus✭ also. 2 📚And I went up in accordance with a revelation✭, and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but I did this privately✭ to those of reputation, lest by any means I was running, or had run my race, in vain✭. 3 📚✭Yet not even Titus, who was with me and who was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. 4 📚✭And this came up because of false brethren brought in secretly. They came sneaking in to spy on our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into bondage. 5 📚✭We did not yield submission to them, no, not for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you. 6 📚✭But from those who seemed to be something (it makes no difference to me what they were – God shows favoritism to no man), for those who seemed to be something in conference added nothing to me. 7 📚On the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been entrusted to me, just as the gospel for the circumcised had been to Peter 8 📚(for he who was working effectively in Peter in the position of apostle for the circumcised, the same one was working effectively in me for the Gentiles), 9 📚and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. 10 📚✭But they wanted us to remember the poor. I too was eager to do the same thing.
Paul and Peter in Antioch
11 📚✭✭But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed. 12 📚For before certain men came from James✭, he ate with the Gentiles, but when they arrived, he drew back and separated himself for fear of those who were of the circumcision. 13 📚And the other Jews also played the hypocrite✭ with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 📚✭But when I saw that they were not behaving in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, “If you, being a Jew, live the way the Gentiles do✭, and not like the Jews, why do you compel✭ the Gentiles to live like the Jews?
15 📚✭“We who are Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
The truth Paul taught
16 📚✭know that a man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, and we too have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law. For by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.
17 📚✭“But while we seek to be justified by Christ, if we ourselves also are found to be sinners, is Christ therefore a servant of sin? Absolutely not! 18 📚✭For if I rebuild the things I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 📚For I through the Law am dead✭ to the Law, that I might live for God. 20 📚I have been crucified with Christ✭. Nevertheless I live – yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me✭. 21 📚✭I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes by the Law, then Christ died in vain”.