Galatians 2 - English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

2 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those (A)who seemed influential) the gospel that (B)I proclaim among the Gentiles, (C)in order to make sure I was not running or had not (D)run in vain. 3 But even Titus, who was with me, (E)was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. 4 (F)Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who (G)slipped in to spy out (H)our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, (I)so that they might bring us into slavery— 5 to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that (J)the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. 6 And from those (K)who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; (L)God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential (M)added nothing to me. 7 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been (N)entrusted with (O)the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised 8 (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles), 9 and when James and Cephas and John, (P)who seemed to be (Q)pillars, perceived the (R)grace that was given to me, they (S)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, (T)the very thing I was eager to do.

Paul Opposes Peter

11 But (U)when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him (V)to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, (W)he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing (X)the circumcision party. 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 (Y)conduct was not in step with (Z)the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas (AA)before them all, “If you, though a Jew, (AB)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 (AC)Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that (AD)a person is not justified[a] by works of the law (AE)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, (AF)because by works of the law no one will be justified.

17 But if, in our endeavour to be justified in Christ, we too were found (AG)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 (AH)died to the law, so that I might (AI)live to God. 20 I have been (AJ)crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives (AK)in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, (AL)who loved me and (AM)gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for (AN)if righteousness[b] were through the law, (AO)then Christ died for no purpose.

Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:16 Or counted righteous (three times in verse 16); also verse 17
  2. Galatians 2:21 Or justification

Cross references

  1. Galatians 2:2 : ver. 6, 9
  2. Galatians 2:2 : 1 Tim. 3:16
  3. Galatians 2:2 : ch. 4:11; 1 Thess. 3:5
  4. Galatians 2:2 : Phil. 2:16
  5. Galatians 2:3 : [Acts 16:3]
  6. Galatians 2:4 : Acts 15:24; 2 Cor. 11:26; [ch. 5:12]
  7. Galatians 2:4 : [2 Pet. 2:1; Jude 4]
  8. Galatians 2:4 : See ch. 5:1
  9. Galatians 2:4 : ch. 4:3, 9, 24, 25; 2 Cor. 11:20; [Rom. 8:15]
  10. Galatians 2:5 : ver. 14; [ch. 4:16; 5:7; Titus 1:14; 2 John 1]
  11. Galatians 2:6 : ver. 2, 9; [ch. 6:3; Acts 5:36]; See 1 Cor. 3:7
  12. Galatians 2:6 : See Deut. 10:17
  13. Galatians 2:6 : [2 Cor. 11:5; 12:11]
  14. Galatians 2:7 : 1 Thess. 2:4; 1 Tim. 1:11; See 1 Cor. 9:17
  15. Galatians 2:7 : ch. 1:16; See Acts 9:15
  16. Galatians 2:9 : [See ver. 6 above]; ver. 2, 9; [ch. 6:3; Acts 5:36]; See 1 Cor. 3:7
  17. Galatians 2:9 : Jer. 1:18; Rev. 3:12
  18. Galatians 2:9 : See Rom. 1:5
  19. Galatians 2:9 : [2 Pet. 3:15]
  20. Galatians 2:10 : See Acts 24:17
  21. Galatians 2:11 : [Acts 15:1, 35]
  22. Galatians 2:11 : Job 21:31
  23. Galatians 2:12 : Acts 11:3; [ver. 14; Acts 10:28]; See Luke 15:2
  24. Galatians 2:12 : See Acts 11:2
  25. Galatians 2:14 : Heb. 12:13
  26. Galatians 2:14 : See ver. 5
  27. Galatians 2:14 : 1 Tim. 5:20
  28. Galatians 2:14 : See ver. 12
  29. Galatians 2:15 : ver. 17; [Eph. 2:3, 12]
  30. Galatians 2:16 : ch. 3:11; See Acts 13:39
  31. Galatians 2:16 : See Rom. 9:30
  32. Galatians 2:16 : Rom. 3:20; [Ps. 143:2]
  33. Galatians 2:17 : ver. 15
  34. Galatians 2:19 : See Rom. 6:2; 7:4
  35. Galatians 2:19 : Luke 20:38; Rom. 6:11; 14:7, 8; 2 Cor. 5:15; 1 Thess. 5:10; Heb. 9:14; 1 Pet. 4:2
  36. Galatians 2:20 : ch. 5:24; 6:14; Rom. 6:6
  37. Galatians 2:20 : See John 17:23
  38. Galatians 2:20 : See Rom. 8:37
  39. Galatians 2:20 : See ch. 1:4
  40. Galatians 2:21 : [ch. 3:21; Heb. 7:11]
  41. Galatians 2:21 : [ch. 5:4]

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