Galatians

保罗被其他的使徒接纳

1过了十四年，我同巴拿巴又上耶路撒冷去，并带着提多同去。

2我是奉启示上去的，把我在外邦人中所传的福音对弟兄们陈说；却是背地里对那有名望之人说的，惟恐我现在，或是从前，徒然奔跑。

3但与我同去的提多，虽是希腊人，也没有勉强他受割礼；

4因为有偷着引进来的假弟兄，私下窥探我们在基督耶稣里的自由，要叫我们作奴仆。

5我们就是一刻的工夫也没有容让顺服他们，为要叫福音的真理仍存在你们中间。

6至于那些有名望的，不论他是何等人，都与我无干。 神不以外貌取人。那些有名望的，并没有加增我什么，

7反倒看见了主托我传福音给那未受割礼的人，正如托彼得传福音给那受割礼的人。（

8那感动彼得、叫他为受割礼之人作使徒的，也感动我，叫我为外邦人作使徒；）

9又知道所赐给我的恩典，那称为教会柱石的雅各、矶法、约翰，就向我和巴拿巴用右手行相交之礼，叫我们往外邦人那里去，他们往受割礼的人那里去。

10只是愿意我们记念穷人；这也是我本来热心去行的。

保罗在安提阿责备彼得

11后来，矶法到了安提阿；因他有可责之处，我就当面抵挡他。

12从雅各那里来的人未到以先，他和外邦人一同吃饭，及至他们来到，他因怕奉割礼的人，就退去与外邦人隔开了。

13其余的犹太人也都随着他装假，甚至连巴拿巴也随伙装假。

14但我一看见他们行的不正，与福音的真理不合，就在众人面前对矶法说：「你既是犹太人，若随外邦人行事，不随犹太人行事，怎么还勉强外邦人随犹太人呢？」

犹太人和外邦人都因信得救

15我们这生来的犹太人，不是外邦的罪人；

16既知道人称义不是因行律法，乃是因信耶稣基督，连我们也信了基督耶稣，使我们因信基督称义，不因行律法称义；因为凡有血气的，没有一人因行律法称义。

17我们若求在基督里称义，却仍旧是罪人，难道基督是叫人犯罪的吗？断乎不是！

18我素来所拆毁的，若重新建造，这就证明自己是犯罪的人。

19我因律法，就向律法死了，叫我可以向 神活着。

20我已经与基督同钉十字架，现在活着的不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活着；并且我如今在肉身活着，是因信 神的儿子而活；他是爱我，为我舍己。

21我不废掉 神的恩；义若是借着律法得的，基督就是徒然死了。

1Then, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

2And I went up according to revelation; and communicated to them the gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles, but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run, or had run in vain.

3But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Gentile, was compelled to be circumcised.

4But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude.

5To whom we yielded not by subjection, no not for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

6But of them who seemed to be some thing, (what they were some time, it is nothing to me, God accepteth not the person of man,) for to me they that seemed to be some thing added nothing.

7But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision.

8(For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, wrought in me also among the Gentiles.)

9And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed 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:

10Only that we should be mindful of the poor: which same thing also I was careful to do.

11But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

12For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision.

13And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented, so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation.

14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

15We by nature are Jews, and not of the Gentiles sinners.

16But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ; we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

17But if while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners; is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid.

18For if I build up again the things which I have destroyed, I make myself a prevaricator.

19For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God: with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

20And I live, now not I; but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered himself for me.

21I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.