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(for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),
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and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
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They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.
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Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed;
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for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
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And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
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But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?
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We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
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knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
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But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!
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For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.