Galatians 2:11-18

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?
15 “We are ^aJews by nature and not ^bsinners from among the Gentiles; 16 nevertheless ¹knowing that ^aa man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by ^bfaith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since ^cby the works of ²the Law no ³flesh will be justified. 17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found ^asinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? ^bMay it never be! 18 For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I ^aprove myself to be a transgressor.

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