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2:1  Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along as well.
2:2  I went up · in response to a revelation and laid out before them—though privately before the acknowledged leaders—the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.
2:3  Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.
2:4  This matter came up because of · some false brothers secretly brought in—they had slipped in to spy out · our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus so that they might make slaves of us—
2:5  but to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would be preserved for you.
2:6  But from those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) ·—those leaders contributed nothing to me.
2:7  But on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised
2:8  (for the one who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for mine to the Gentiles)
2:9  and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
2:10  They asked only that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I too was eager to do.
2:11  But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
2:12  For until certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself because he feared those of the circumcision party.
2:13  And the rest of the Jews joined him in playing the hypocrite, · so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
2:14  But when I saw that they were not behaving in a manner consistent with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, born a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, by what right are you trying to make the Gentiles live like Jews?”
2:15  We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
2:16  yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, since no one will be justified by the works of the law.
2:17  But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Of course not!
2:18  But if I build up again those things I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a lawbreaker.
2:19  For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ;
2:20  and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
2:21  I do not nullify the grace of God; for if righteousness could be gained through the law, then Christ died for nothing!