8. (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
9. and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
10. Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
11. But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.
13. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
14. But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
15. We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
16. yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
17. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
18. For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.