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12 For before certain ones came from James, he was eating along with the Gentiles: but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also reciprocated with him; so that even Barnabas was led away by their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, If you being a Jew are living like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how do you compel the Gentiles to judaize? 15 We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but through the faith of Christ Jesus, and we have believed into Christ Jesus, in order that we may be justified by faith of Christ, and not by works of law, because by works of law no flesh shall be justified. 17 But if seeking to be justified in Christ, we may also be found sinners, then is Christ the minister of sin? it could not be so. 18 For if I again build the things which I have destroyed, I constitute myself a transgressor. 19 For I through law died to law, in, order that I may live unto God. 20 I am crucified along with Christ; and I live no longer, 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 make void the grace of God: for if righteousness was through law, then Christ died gratuitiously. Galatians 2:12-21, Godbey New Testament. Public domain.
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