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1 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 these 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 the 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.