Galatians 2
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Galatians 2:12-14

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

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Notes

  1. 1. Galatians 2:12 Or Jacob ↩
  2. 2. Galatians 2:12 Acts 12:17; Gal 2:9 ↩
  3. 3. Galatians 2:12 Acts 11:3 ↩
  4. 4. Galatians 2:12 Acts 11:2 ↩
  5. 5. Galatians 2:12 Or converts from the circumcised; lit those from the circumcision ↩
  6. 6. Galatians 2:13 Acts 4:36; Gal 2:1, 9 ↩
  7. 7. Galatians 2:14 Heb 12:13 ↩
  8. 8. Galatians 2:14 Or progressing toward; lit walking straightly ↩
  9. 9. Galatians 2:14 Gal 1:6; 2:5; Col 1:5 ↩
  10. 10. Galatians 2:14 Gal 1:18; 2:7, 9, 11 ↩
  11. 11. Galatians 2:14 Acts 10:28; Gal 2:12 ↩
  12. 12. Galatians 2:14 Some close the direct quotation here, others extend it through v 21 ↩

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