Then (1) fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also. (1) Now he shows how he agrees with the apostles, with whom he grants that he conferred concerning his Gospel which he taught among the Gentiles, fourteen years after his conversion. And they pe... [ Continue Reading ]
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, (a) in vain. (a) Unfruitful, for as touching his doctrine, Paul does not doubt it, but because there wer... [ Continue Reading ]
And that because of (b) false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: (b) Who by deceit and counterfeit holiness crept in among the faithful.... [ Continue Reading ]
To whom we gave place by (c) subjection, no, not for an hour; that the (d) truth of the gospel might continue with (e) you. (c) By submitting ourselves to them, and betraying our own liberty. (d) The true and sincere doctrine of the Gospel, which remained safe from being corrupted with any of thes... [ Continue Reading ]
But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the (f) uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter; (f) Among the Gentiles, as Peter had to preach it among the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when James, Cephas, and John, who (g) seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right (h) hands of fellowship; that we [should go] unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. (g) Whom alone and only these men count for pillars of th... [ Continue Reading ]
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the (i) face, because he was to be blamed. (i) Before all men.... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. (2) Another most vehement proof of his apostleship, and also of that doctrine which he had delivered concerning free ju... [ Continue Reading ]
And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was (k) carried away with their dissimulation. (k) By example rather than by judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
But when I saw that they walked not (l) uprightly according to the (m) truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why (n) compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? (l) Literally, "with a rig... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) We [who are] Jews (o) by nature, and not (p) sinners of the Gentiles, (3) The second part of this epistle, the state of which is this: we are justified by faith in Christ Jesus without the works of the Law. Which thing he propounds in such a way, that first of all he meets with an objection (fo... [ Continue Reading ]
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith (q) of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall (r) no flesh be justified. (q) In Jesus Chr... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) But if, while (s) we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. (4) Before he goes any further, he meets with the objection which abhorred this doctrine of free justification by faith, because, they say, men are by... [ Continue Reading ]
For I through the law am dead to the (t) law, that I might live unto God. (t) The Law that terrifies the conscience brings us to Christ, and he alone causes us to indeed die to the Law, because by making us righteous, he takes away from us the terror of conscience. And by sanctifying us, he causes... [ Continue Reading ]
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not (u) I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the (x) flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (u) The same that I was before. (x) In this mortal body.... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead (e) in vain. (5) The second argument taken from an absurdity: if men may be justified by the Law, then it was not necessary for Christ to die. (e) For there was no reason why he should do so.... [ Continue Reading ]