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Galatians 2

1.Then fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took with me Titus also.
2.And I went up by revelation, and acommunicated with them of the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, *but particularly with them that were the chief, lest by any means I should run, or had run^ in vain:
3.But neither yet Titus which was with me, though he were a Grecian, was bcompelled to be circumcised
4.Forall the false brethren that crept in: who came in privily to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.
5.To whom we cgave not place by subjection for an hour, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.
6.And of them which seemed to be great, I was not taught (what they dwere in time passed, it maketh no matter to me: *God accepteth no man’s person) nevertheless, they that are the chief, edid communicate nothing with me.
7.But contrariwise, when they saw that the Gospel over the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the Gospel over the Circumcision was unto Peter:
8.(For he that was mighty by Peter in the Apostleship over the Circumcision, was also mighty by me toward the Gentiles)
9.And when James, and Cephas, and John knew of the grace that was given unto me, which are counted to be pillars, they gave to me and to Barnabas the fright hands of fellowship, that we should preach unto the Gentiles, and they unto the Circumcision,
10.*Warning only that we should remember the poor: which thing also I was diligent to do.
11.¶ And when Peter was come to Antiochia, I withstood him gto his face: for he was to be blamed.
12.For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the Circumcision.
13.And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him, in somuch that Barnabas was brought into their dissimulation also.
14.But when I saw, that they went not the ^right way to the truth of the Gospel, I said unto Peter before all men, If you being a Jew, livest as the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, why hconstrainest thou the Gentiles to do like the Jews?
15.We which are Jews by nature, and not isinners of the Gentiles,
16.Know that a man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ: even we, I say, have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law, because that by the works of the Law no ^flesh shalbe justified.
17.*If then while we seek to be made righteous by Christ, we ourselves are found ksinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin? God lforbid.
18.For if I build again the things that I have destroyed, mI make myself a trespasser.
19.For I through the Law am dead to the Law, and that I might live unto God, I am ncrucified with Christ.
20.Thus I live yet, onot I now, but Christ liveth in me: & in that that I now live in the pflesh, I live by the faith in the Son of God, who hath loved me, & given himself for me.
21.I do not abrogate the qgrace of God: for if righteousness be by the Law, then Christ died ^without a cause.

Notes

2-*.
Acts 15.2.
2-^.
Greek: without profit.
2-a.
Paul nothing doubted of his doctrine, but because many reported that he taught contrary doctrine to the other Apostles, which rumours hindered the course of the Gospel, he endeavoured to remedy it, and to prove that they consented with him.
3-b.
Which declares that the other Apostles agreed with him.
5-c.
Lest we should have betrayed the Christian liberty.
6-*.
Deut. 10.17, 2 Chron. 19.7, Job 34.19, Wisdo. 6.7, Eccles. 35.12, Act. 10.34, Rom. 2.11, Ephes. 6.9, Col. 3.25, 1 Pet. 1.17.
6-d.
Albeit they had been conversant with Christ afore time.
6-e.
But approved my doctrine perfect in all points.
9-f.
In token that we all agreed in doctrine.
10-*.
Act. 11.30, 2 Cor. 9.3.
11-g.
Meaning, before all men.
14-^.
Greek, with a right foot.
14-h.
In bringing their consciences into doubt by thine example and authority? and here the Apostle comes to his chief point.
15-i.
For so the Jews called the Gentiles in reproach.
16-^.
Or, man.
17-*.
Rom. 3.19, Phil. 3.9.
17-k.
Except our fruits be agreeable to our faith, we declare that we have not Christ.
17-l.
For he caused them not to sin, but disclosed it, neither took he away the righteousness of the Law, but showed their hypocrisy which were not able to perform that whereof they boasted.
18-m.
For my doctrine is to destroy sin by faith in Christ and not to establish sin.
19-n.
And feel his strength in me which kills sin.
20-o.
Not as I was once, but regenerate, and changed into a new creature, in quality, and not in substance.
20-p.
In this mortal body.
21-^.
Or, for nothing.
21-q.
As did the false Apostles which preached not the faith in Christ.