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Galatians 2:9-17 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

9. and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision [may go],

10. only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent--this very thing--to do.

11. And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,

12. for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

13. and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.

14. But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

15. we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,

16. having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

17. And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, [is] then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!

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