8. for He who worked in Kĕpha to make him an emissary to the circumcised also worked in me for the gentiles.
9. So when Ya‛aqoḇ, Kĕpha, and Yoḥanan, who seemed to be supports, came to know the favour that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnaḇah the right hand of fellowship, in order that we go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised,
10. only that we might remember the poor, which I myself was eager to do.
11. And when Kĕpha had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was at fault.
12. For before some came from Ya‛aqoḇ, he was eating with the gentiles, but when they came, he began to withdraw and separate himself, in fear of those of the circumcision.
13. And the rest of the Yehuḏim joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnaḇah was led away by their hypocrisy.
14. But when I saw that they are not walking straight according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Kĕpha before them all, “If you, being a Yehuḏite, live as a gentile and not as the Yehuḏim, why do you compel gentiles to live as Yehuḏim?
15. “We, Yehuḏim by nature, and not of the gentiles, sinners,
16. knowing that a man is not declared right by works of Torah, but through belief in יהושע Messiah, even we have believed in Messiah יהושע, in order to be declared right by belief in Messiah and not by works of Torah, because by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right.
17. “And if, while seeking to be declared right by Messiah, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Messiah then a servant of sin? Let it not be!
18. “For if I rebuild what I once overthrew, I establish myself a transgressor.
19. “For through Torah I died to Torah, in order to live to Elohim.