Galatians 1:11-19, Galatians 2:1-14 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Galatians 1:11-19

Paul Called by God

11 For ^aI make known to you, brothers, that the gospel which I am proclaiming as good news is ^bnot according to man. 12 For ^aI neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a ^brevelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For you have heard of ^amy former conduct in Judaism, how I ^bused to persecute ^cthe church of God beyond measure and ^dtried to destroy it. 14 And I ^awas advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being far more zealous for the traditions of my ^bfathers. 15 But when God, who had set me apart from my mother’s womb and ^acalled me through His grace, was pleased 16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might ^aproclaim Him as good news among the Gentiles, ^bI did not immediately consult with ¹^cflesh and blood, 17 ^anor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to ^bDamascus.
18 Then ^athree years later I went up ^bto Jerusalem to ¹become acquainted with ^cCephas, and stayed with him fifteen days. 19 But I did not see any other of the apostles except ¹^aJames, the Lord’s brother.

Galatians 2:1-14

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

Then after fourteen years I ^awent up again to Jerusalem with ^bBarnabas, taking ^cTitus along also. 2 And I went up ¹because of a ^arevelation, and I laid out to them the ^bgospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, lest somehow I might be ^crunning, or had run, in vain. 3 But not even ^aTitus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was ^bcompelled to be circumcised. 4 But this was because of the ^afalse brothers secretly brought in, who ^bhad sneaked in to spy out our ^cfreedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to ^denslave us. 5 But we did not yield in subjection to them for even ¹a moment, so that ^athe truth of the gospel would remain with you. 6 But from those who ¹were of high ^areputation (what they were makes no difference to me; ^bGod ²shows no partiality)—well, those who were of reputation contributed nothing to me. 7 But on the contrary, seeing that I had been ^aentrusted with the ^bgospel ¹to the uncircumcised, just as ^cPeter had been ²to the circumcised 8 (for He who worked in Peter unto his ^aapostleship ¹to the circumcised worked in me also unto the Gentiles), 9 and recognizing ^athe grace that had been given to me, ^bJames and ^cCephas and ¹John, who were ^dreputed to be ^epillars, gave to me and ^fBarnabas the ^gright ²hand of fellowship, so that we might ^hgo to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 Only they asked us to remember the poor—^athe very thing I also was eager to do.

Paul Opposes Peter (Cephas)

11 But when ^aCephas came to ^bAntioch, I opposed him to his face, because he ¹stood condemned. 12 For prior to the coming of certain men from ^aJames, he used to ^beat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he began to shrink back and separate himself, ^cfearing ¹the party of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even ^aBarnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they ^awere not ¹straightforward about ^bthe truth of the gospel, I said to ^cCephas before everyone, “If you, being a Jew, ^dlive like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?