Galatians 2
2
Paul Defends His Gospel at Jerusalem
1Then after fourteen years I went up again # 2:1 Ac 15:2–30 to Jerusalem with Barnabas, # 2:1 Ac 4:36 taking Titus # 2:1 Ti 1:4 along also. 2I went up according to a revelation # 2:2 1Pt 4:13 and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those recognized as leaders. I wanted to be sure I was not running, and had not been running, in vain. 3But not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. 4This matter arose because some false brothers # 2:4 2Pt 2:1 had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus in order to enslave us. 5But we did not give up and submit to these people for even a moment, so that the truth # 2:5 2Th 2:10 of the gospel would be preserved for you.
6Now from those recognized as important (what they # 2:6 Lit the recognized ones once were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism # 2:6 Or God is not a respecter of persons; lit God does not receive the face of man,# 2:6 Dt 16:19) — they added nothing to me. 7On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, # 2:7 Col 3:11 just as Peter # 2:7 Lk 6:14; Ac 10:32 was for the circumcised, 8since the one at work in Peter for an apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in me for the Gentiles. 9When James, # 2:9 Jd 1 Cephas, # 2:9 Other mss read Peter,# 2:9 Jn 1:42 and John # 2:9 Jn 21:7 — those recognized as pillars # 2:9 1Tm 3:15; Rv 3:12; 10:1 — acknowledged the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10They asked only that we would remember the poor, # 2:10 Mk 14:7; Rm 15:26 which I had made every effort to do.
Freedom from the Law
11But when Cephas # 2:11 Other mss read Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned. # 2:11 Or he was in the wrong 12For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party. 13Then the rest of the Jews # 2:13 Rm 2:28–29 joined his hypocrisy, # 2:13 Mk 12:15 so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas # 2:14 Other mss read Peter in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile # 2:14 Rm 1:13 and not like a Jew, # 2:14 Rm 14:2 how can you compel Gentiles to live # 2:14 Rm 6:2 like Jews? ” # 2:14 Some translations continue the quotation through v. 16 or v. 21.
15We are Jews by birth and not “Gentile sinners,” 16and yet because we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law # 2:16 Rm 3:20; Gl 3:2,5,10 but by faith in Jesus Christ, # 2:16 Or by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ # 2:16 Or by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will # 2:16 Lit law all flesh will not be justified. 17But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ, # 2:17 Rm 6:23; 1Tm 1:15 is Christ then a promoter # 2:17 Or servant,# 2:17 1Co 3:5 of sin? Absolutely not! # 2:17 Lk 20:16 18If I rebuild # 2:18 Ac 20:32 those things that I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker. # 2:18 Rm 2:25,27; Jms 2:9,11 19For through the law I died to the law, # 2:19 Rm 7:4; 1Pt 2:24 so that I might live for God. # 2:19 Php 1:21 20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. # 2:20 Mk 10:38; 2Co 13:5 The life I now live in the body, # 2:20 Lit flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, # 2:20 Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 who loved # 2:20 Jn 3:16 me # 2:20 2Th 2:13 and gave himself # 2:20 Ti 2:14 for me. # 2:20 Lk 20:38; Rm 14:8 21I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, # 2:21 Rm 7:5; 9:31; Gl 5:4; Php 3:6 then Christ died # 2:21 1Co 8:11; Php 3:10 for nothing.
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Galatians 2
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1Then, after arbah esrey shanim (fourteen years), again#2:1 Ac 11:30 I went up to Yerushalayim with Bar-Nabba, having taken with me also Titos. 2Yet I went up according to a chazon (revelation), and I laid before them the Besuras HaGeulah which I proclaim among the Goyim, but I did this privately to the men of repute,#2:2 Ga 2:9 lest I should run, or should prove to have run, L'TOHU (in vain).#2:2 Isa 49:4; 65:23 3But Titos, the one with me, a Yevani (Greek), was not compelled to undergo bris milah. 4But because of the achei sheker (false brothers) b'Moshiach, the ones secretly brought in, the ones who crept in to spy out our DEROR#2:4 Lv 25:10 (freedom) which we have in Moshiach Yehoshua al menat (in order that) they might enslave us. 5To these enslavers not for one hour did we yield in subjection, that HaEmes of the Besuras HaGeulah might continue and remain with you.#2:5 Galatian Goyim 6But from the men of repute whatever they once were matters nothing to me, ki ein masso panim im Hashem (for there is no respect of persons with G-d, no partiality), for to me these men of repute added nothing. 7But, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the Besuras HaGeulah for those without the bris milah, just as Kefa was for those with the bris milah, 8For the One having worked in Kefa for a Shlichus to those with the bris milah also worked in me for a Shlichus to the Goyim. 9And realizing the Chen v'Chesed Hashem having been given to me, Ya'akov#2:9 See Mt 13:55 and Kefa and Yochanan, the men of repute, the ones seeming to be Ammudei HaKehillah (Pillars of the Kehillah), extended to me and to Bar-Nabba the yad yeminam (right hands) as a sign of Achavah B'Moshiach (Brotherhood in Moshiach), that we should be for those of the Goyim, but they for those of the bris milah, 10Only that we should remember the Aniyim (the Poor), the very thing which I was also eager to do.
11But when Kefa came to Antioch, I stood against him to his face, because there was found in him a dvar ashmah (a thing of guilt, condemnation). 12For, before certain ones#2:12 Jerusalem visitors came from Ya'akov, Kefa was as a matter of course sitting at tish at betzi'at halechem (breaking of bread) at the Seudos Moshiach with the Goyim; but, when they came, Kefa drew back and was separating himself, fearing the ones#2:12 the Jerusalem party of the bris milah.#2:12 Ac 15:5 13And the rest of the Yehudim who were ma'aminim b'Moshiach joined with Kefa in this dissembling, so that even Bar-Nabba was carried away with their tzevi'ut (hypocrisy). 14But when I saw that their halichah, their hitnahagut (conduct) was not the Derech HaYashar (Straight Way) with respect to HaEmes of HaBesuras HaGeulah, I said to Kefa before all, “If you, being a Yehudi, have a hitnahagut that is according to the Derech Goyim and not the Derech Yehudim, how do you compel the Goyim to live as the Yehudim?” 15We ourselves are Yehudim by birth and not Goyishe chote'im (sinners). 16Yet we have da'as that a man cannot be YITZDAK IM HASHEM#2:16 Job 25:4 (be justified with G-d) by [depending on] the ma'asim of Gezetz (Law), but through emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. And we have come to have bitachon in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, that we can be YITZDAK IM HASHEM#2:16 Job 25:4 (be justified with G-d) by emunah in Moshiach and not by#2:16 supposed zokheh merit of ma'asim, because by taryag mitzvot KOL CHAI LO YITZDAK#2:16 Ps 143:2 (all living shall not be justified).
17Now, if, by seeking to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM in Moshiach, we ourselves were found also to be chote'im (sinners),#2:17 2:15; Ro 3:9,23 then in that case is Moshiach a kohen for iniquity, a minister serving sin? Chas v'Shalom (G-d forbid)! 18For if what I destroyed, these things I again rebuild,#2:18 Ga 1:23; 5:2 I display myself to be a poshei'a (transgressor). 19For I, through the Torah,#2:19 Ga 3:13 died in relation to the gezetz,#2:19 Ro 7:4-6 so that I might live to Hashem. With Moshiach I have been talui al haetz#2:19 Dt 21:23 (hanging on the tree). 20But it is no longer Anochi (I) who lives, but Moshiach who lives in me, and the Chayyim I now live in the basar, I live by emunah, emunah in the Zun fun der Oybershter,#2:20 Moshiach the one having ahavah (agape) for me and having given himself over, on my behalf. 21I do not set aside the Chen v'Chesed Hashem; for if the MAH (how) an ENOSH (man) is to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM#2:21 Job 25:4 is found through Gezetz chumra, then Moshiach died for nothing and L'TOHU (in vain).#2:21 Isa 49:4; 65:23
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