Galatians 2

1Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.Cross-references: Acts 4:36 · Acts 11:25 · Acts 11:30 · Acts 12:25 · Acts 13:2 · Acts 13:50 · +12 more

2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.Cross-references: Eccl 10:1 · Matt 10:16 · Acts 5:34 · Acts 15:4 · Acts 15:12 · Acts 16:9 · +12 more

3But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.Cross-references: Acts 15:24 · Acts 16:3 · 1Cor 9:20 · 2Cor 2:13 · Gal 5:2

4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,Cross-references: Ps 51:12 · Ps 119:45 · Isa 51:23 · John 8:31 · Acts 15:1 · Acts 15:24 · +20 more

5to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.Cross-references: Acts 15:2 · Gal 2:14 · Gal 3:1 · Gal 4:16 · Eph 1:13 · Col 1:5 · +3 more

6But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,Cross-references: Job 32:6 · Job 32:17 · Job 34:19 · Matt 22:16 · Mark 6:17 · Mark 12:14 · +14 more

7but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—Cross-references: Acts 9:15 · Acts 13:46 · Acts 15:12 · Acts 15:25 · Acts 18:6 · Acts 28:28 · +10 more

8for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—Cross-references: Acts 1:8 · Acts 1:25 · Acts 2:14 · Acts 3:12 · Acts 4:4 · Acts 5:12 · +16 more

9and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.Cross-references: Matt 16:18 · Acts 4:36 · Acts 15:7 · Acts 15:13 · Acts 15:22 · Rom 1:5 · +16 more

10They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.Cross-references: Acts 11:29 · Acts 24:17 · Rom 15:25 · 1Cor 16:1 · 2Cor 8:1 · Heb 13:16 · +2 more

11But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.Cross-references: Ex 32:21 · Num 20:12 · Jer 1:17 · Jonah 1:3 · Jonah 4:3 · Jonah 4:9 · +19 more

12For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.Cross-references: Prov 29:25 · Isa 57:11 · Isa 65:5 · Matt 26:69 · Luke 15:2 · Acts 10:28 · +7 more

13And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.Cross-references: Gen 12:11 · Gen 26:6 · Gen 27:24 · Job 15:12 · Eccl 7:20 · Eccl 10:1 · +8 more

14But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?Cross-references: Lev 19:17 · Ps 15:2 · Ps 58:1 · Ps 84:11 · Ps 141:5 · Prov 2:7 · +19 more

15“We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,Cross-references: 1Sam 15:18 · Matt 3:7 · Matt 9:11 · Mark 7:26 · John 8:39 · Acts 22:21 · +6 more

16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.Cross-references: Job 9:2 · Job 9:29 · Job 25:4 · Ps 130:3 · Ps 143:2 · Luke 10:25 · +34 more

17But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!Cross-references: Matt 1:21 · Rom 3:4 · Rom 3:6 · Rom 6:1 · Rom 9:30 · Rom 11:7 · +9 more

18For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.Cross-references: Rom 14:15 · 1Cor 8:11 · Gal 2:4 · Gal 2:12 · Gal 2:21 · Gal 4:9 · +1 more

19For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.Cross-references: Rom 3:19 · Rom 4:15 · Rom 5:20 · Rom 6:2 · Rom 6:11 · Rom 6:14 · +20 more

20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.Cross-references: Matt 4:3 · Matt 20:28 · John 1:49 · John 3:16 · John 3:35 · John 6:57 · +47 more

21I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”Cross-references: Ps 33:10 · Isa 49:4 · Jer 8:8 · Mark 7:9 · Rom 8:31 · Rom 10:3 · +9 more