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Fourteen Years Later The Jerusalem Apostles Added Nothing To My Gospel

2 Then after fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having also taken along Titus with me. ² And I went up based-on^[a] a revelation, and laid-before them the good-news which I am proclaiming among the Gentiles— but privately, to the ones having-the-reputation-of ^[b] being something— that somehow^[c] I might not be running, or have run, in vain^[d]. ³ But not even Titus, the one with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. ⁴ Now^[e] this arose^[f] because of the false-brothers secretly-brought-in, who sneaked-in to spy-out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus in order that they might enslave^[g] us— ⁵ to whom we yielded in submission not-even for an hour, in order that the truth of the good-news might continue^[h] with you. ⁶ And from the ones having-the-reputation-of being something— of-what-sort they ever^[i] were makes no difference to me; God does not receive the face^[j] of a human— indeed to me the ones having-the-reputation communicated nothing. ⁷ But on-the-contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted the good-news for the uncircumcised just as Peter for the circumcised— ⁸ for the One having worked^[k] in Peter for an apostleship of the circumcised worked also in me for the Gentiles— ⁹ and having recognized the grace having been given to me, James and Cephas and John, the ones having-the-reputation-of being pillars, gave the right hands of fellowship to me and Barnabas, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰ They asked only that we should be remembering^[l] the poor— as to which, I also was eager to do this very thing.

In Antioch I Rebuked Peter When He Erred With Respect To Gentile Christians

¹¹ And when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face— because he was condemned^[m]. ¹² For before certain ones came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles. But when they came, he was drawing-back and separating himself, fearing^[n] the ones of the circumcision. ¹³ And the other Jews also joined-in-hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried-away by their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not walking-straight^[o] with regard to the truth of the good-news, I said to Cephas in front of everyone— “If you being a Jew are living Gentile-ly^[p] and not Jewish-ly^[q], how is it you are compelling the Gentiles to Judaize^[r]?”

Even We Jews Are Declared Righteous By Faith In Christ, Not By Works of The Law

¹⁵ We^[s] are Jews by nature, and not sinners from the Gentiles. ¹⁶ But knowing that a person^[t] is not declared-righteous by works of the Law except^[u] through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, in order that we might be declared-righteous by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law, because by works of the Law no flesh will be declared-righteous.