Paul’s Visit to Jerusalem

1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking also Titus with me.
2 And I went up according to a revelation, and I set before them the gospel which I proclaim among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest somehow I might be running, or had run, in vain.
3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
4 Yet because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who came in secretly to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us,
5 to whom we did not yield in submission even for an hour, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.
6 But from those who were esteemed to be something, whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality, the ones of reputation added nothing to me.
7 But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcision, just as Peter to the circumcision,
8 for the one working in Peter for an apostleship to the circumcision also worked in me toward the Gentiles,
9 and knowing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision.
10 Only they asked that we should remember the poor, which very thing I was also eager to do.

Paul Confronts Peter at Antioch

11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12 For before certain ones came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.
13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they were not walking uprightly toward the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before all, “If you, being a Jew, live like Gentiles and not like Jews, how do you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Justification by Faith, Not by Works of the Law

15 We, Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles,
16 yet knowing that a person is not justified by works of the Law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law, because by works of the Law no flesh will be justified.
17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? May it never be!
18 For if I build again those things that I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
19 For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.
20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who 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.
21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died for nothing.