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11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I openly opposed him, because he had incurred blame. 12 For, before certain persons came from James, he ate with the Gentiles: but, when they had come, he withdrew, and separated himself, because he feared those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews, also, acted hypocritically with him, so that even Barnabas was led away by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter, before them all: If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not after the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to observe Jewish customs? 15 We, who are Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners, 16 knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed on Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of law: because, by works of law no flesh shall be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found sinners, is Christ, therefore, the minister of sin? It can not be. 18 For if I build again those things which I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For, through law, I have died to law, that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ, yet I live; no longer I, but Christ lives 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 set aside the grace of God: for if righteousness be through law, then Christ has died in vain. Galatians 2:11-21, Anderson New Testament. Public domain.
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