[Paul, having shown that his gospel was independent of the powers at
Jerusalem, proceeds to prove that it was fully endorsed by them, and
so he was not a false apostle, as his enemies represented him to be.]
_Then after the space of fourteen years_ [i e., after his conversion,
or about A. D. 51] _I... [ Continue Reading ]
And I went up by revelation: and I laid before them the gospel which I
preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of
repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.
[Paul went up to Jerusalem because he was outwardly appointed to do so
by the church at Antioch ... [ Continue Reading ]
But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be
circumcised... [ Continue Reading ]
and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in
privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that
they might bring us into bondage... [ Continue Reading ]
to whom we gave place in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour;
that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. [But the sequel
showed that I did not run in vain, for my voice and my authority were
recognized in that council in the matter of Titus; and though certain
Jews, who were member... [ Continue Reading ]
But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were,
it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man's person)--they, I
say, who were of repute imparted nothing to me [Having exposed the
Judaists and set forth his triumph over them, and shown them to be
no-what, he now turns to dis... [ Continue Reading ]
but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the
gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the gospel of the
circumcision... [ Continue Reading ]
(for he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the
circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles)... [ Continue Reading ]
and when they perceived the grace that was given unto me, James and
Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and
Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the
Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision... [ Continue Reading ]
only they would that we should remember the poor; which very thing I
was also zealous to do. [These men, as I say, in no way reproved or
corrected me, but, on the contrary, when they saw, by the testimony of
the Spirit, that I was sent to the Gentiles as Peter was sent to the
Jews (for the Spirit, w... [ Continue Reading ]
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because
he stood condemned. [There is no means of determining when this scene
took place, but it was probably very soon after the council at
Jerusalem. It forms the climax in Paul's argument, showing that he was
not only the equal of Peter... [ Continue Reading ]
For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but
when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that
were of the circumcision. [The Jews regarded it as unlawful to have
social intercourse with, or to eat with, Gentiles; but Peter's great
vision, teaching the f... [ Continue Reading ]
And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that
even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation. [These Jews
from Jerusalem appear to have swept in like an invading army, and were
joined by Peter, and then by the rest of the Jewish Christians in
Antioch, and lastly by ev... [ Continue Reading ]
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth
of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all [Antioch was the
center and citadel of Gentile Christianity with all its privileges and
liberties, and Antioch was being captured. It was time to act, and the
whole fate of the chur... [ Continue Reading ]
We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles... [ Continue Reading ]
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but
through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that
we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the
law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. [If
thou, being a Jew to b... [ Continue Reading ]
But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also
were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid. [But if
we were forced by Christ's light to confess that we were sinners under
the law, so that we turned our backs upon the law as a means of
justification; and if we we... [ Continue Reading ]
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself
a transgressor... [ Continue Reading ]
For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God... [ Continue Reading ]
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live,
but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I
live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave himself up for me. [If, as I say, I follow your course, Peter,
and abandon and seek t... [ Continue Reading ]
I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through
the law, then Christ died for nought. [I do not, Peter, in following
my course, make void the grace of God which gave us Christ. But your
course does this very thing, for if a man can be righteous and obtain
justification under the... [ Continue Reading ]