New American Standard Bible 1995

Galatians 2:11-15

11But when 1Cephas came to 2Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he 3stood condemned. 12For prior to the coming of certain men from 4 5James, he used to 6eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, 7fearing 8the party of the circumcision. 13The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even 9Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. 14But when I saw that they 10were not 11straightforward about 12the truth of the gospel, I said to 13Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, 14live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?15

15“We are 16Jews by nature and not 17sinners from among the Gentiles;

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Notes

1. Galatians 2:11 Gal 1:18; 2:7, 9, 14 ↩
2. Galatians 2:11 Acts 11:19; 15:1 ↩
3. Galatians 2:11 Or was to be condemned; lit was one who was condemned, or, was self-condemned ↩
4. Galatians 2:12 Or Jacob ↩
5. Galatians 2:12 Acts 12:17; Gal 2:9 ↩
6. Galatians 2:12 Acts 11:3 ↩
7. Galatians 2:12 Acts 11:2 ↩
8. Galatians 2:12 Or converts from the circumcised; lit those from the circumcision ↩
9. Galatians 2:13 Acts 4:36; Gal 2:1, 9 ↩
10. Galatians 2:14 Heb 12:13 ↩
11. Galatians 2:14 Or progressing toward; lit walking straightly ↩
12. Galatians 2:14 Gal 1:6; 2:5; Col 1:5 ↩
13. Galatians 2:14 Gal 1:18; 2:7, 9, 11 ↩
14. Galatians 2:14 Acts 10:28; Gal 2:12 ↩
15. Galatians 2:14 Some close the direct quotation here, others extend it through v 21 ↩
16. Galatians 2:15 Phil 3:4f ↩
17. Galatians 2:15 1 Sam 15:18; Luke 24:7 ↩

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