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67 lines
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## Paul Accepted by the Apostles
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###### 1
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Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.
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###### 2
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And I went up because of a revelation, and I laid out to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but _I did so_ in private to those who were of reputation, lest somehow I might be running, or had run, in vain.
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###### 3
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But not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
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###### 4
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But _this was_ because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
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###### 5
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But we did not yield in subjection to them for even a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
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###### 6
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But from those who were of high reputation (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)--well, those who were of reputation contributed nothing to me.
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###### 7
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But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter _had been_ to the circumcised
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###### 8
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(for He who worked in Peter unto _his_ apostleship to the circumcised worked in me also unto the Gentiles),
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###### 9
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and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we _might_ _go_ to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
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###### 10
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Only _they asked_ us to remember the poor--the very thing I also was eager to do.
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## Paul Opposes Peter (Cephas)
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###### 11
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But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
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###### 12
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For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he _began to_ shrink back and separate himself, fearing the party of the circumcision.
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###### 13
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And the rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
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###### 14
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But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before everyone, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how _is it that_ you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?
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###### 15
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"We _are_ Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles;
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###### 16
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nevertheless knowing that a 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 faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.
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###### 17
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But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be!
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###### 18
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For if I rebuild what I have _once_ destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
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###### 19
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For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.
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###### 20
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I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the _life_ which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
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###### 21
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I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness _comes_ through the Law, then Christ died needlessly."
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