Galatians 2:9-21

English Standard Version

⁹ and when James and Cephas and John, ^(A)who seemed to be ^(B)pillars, perceived the ^(C)grace that was given to me, they ^(D)gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰ Only, they asked us to remember the poor, ^(E)the very thing I was eager to do.

Paul Opposes Peter

¹¹ But ^(F)when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him ^(G)to his face, because he stood condemned. ¹² For before certain men came from James, ^(H)he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing ^(I)the circumcision party.^{[a] 13} And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ But when I saw that their ^(J)conduct was not in step with ^(K)the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas ^(L)before them all, “If you, though a Jew, ^(M)live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Justified by Faith

¹⁵ We ourselves are Jews by birth and not ^(N)Gentile sinners; ¹⁶ yet we know that ^(O)a person is not justified^[b] by works of the law ^(P)but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, ^(Q)because by works of the law no one will be justified.

¹⁷ But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found ^(R)to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! ¹⁸ For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. ¹⁹ For through the law I ^(S)died to the law, so that I might ^(T)live to God. ²⁰ I have been ^(U)crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives ^(V)in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, ^(W)who loved me and ^(X)gave himself for me. ²¹ I do not nullify the grace of God, for ^(Y)if righteousness^[c] were through the law, ^(Z)then Christ died for no purpose.