GALATIANS I, CHAPTER II.

THEN fourteen years after I went up again to
Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with 
me also. 
2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated 
unto them that gospel which I preach among 
the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of 
reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had 
run, in vain. 
3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a 
Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
4 And that because of false brethren unawares
brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty
which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might 
bring us into bondage:
5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not 
for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might 
continue with you. 
6 But of those, who seemed to be somewhat, 
whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me:
God accepteth no man's person: for they who seemed 
to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me:
7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel
of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, 
as the gospel of circumcision was unto Peter;
8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to 
the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was 
mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who 
seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was 
given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the 
right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto 
the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 
10 Only they would that we should remember the 
poor; the same which I also was forward to do. 
11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood
him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 
12 For, before that certain came from James, he 
did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, 
he withdrew, and separated himself, fearing them
which were of the circumcision. 
13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with 
him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried 
away with their dissimulation. 
14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly 
according to the truth of the gospel, I said
unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, 
livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as 
do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to 
live as do the Jews?
15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners 
of the Gentiles,
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the 
works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, 
even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we 
might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by 
the works of the law: for by the works of the law 
shall no flesh be justified. 
17 But if, while we seek to be justified by 
Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is
therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed,
I make myself a transgressor. 
19 For I through the law am dead to the law, 
that I might live unto God. 
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I 
live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life 
which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the 
Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if
righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead
in vain.