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I am very pleased that you will
accompany me at this time where we share

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the reading of the Bible, we
are doing so in the New Testament,

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and we are now going to read
chapter two of the Letter to Galatians,

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Letter of the Apostle Paul to the
Galatians. In chapter two he thus says

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the word of God. After fourteen
years, I went up again to Jerusalem

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with Barnabas taking Titus with me also, but went up according to a revelation

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and not to run or to have
run in vain, I exposed in private

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to those who had a certain reputation
the gospel which I preached among the Gentiles

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but not. Even Titus, who
was with me yet to be Greek,

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was forced to circumcise himself. And
this despite the false brothers sneaking in to

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spy on our freedom that we have
in Christ Jesus, to reduce us to

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slavery to which we did not agree
for a moment to submit so that the

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truth of the Gospel would remain with
us. But of those who had a

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reputation for being something they' ve
been in the past. Nothing matters to

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me. God does not mean people
to me, for those of reputation have

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communicated nothing new to me before.
On the contrary, as they saw that

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the Gospel of uncircumcision had been entrusted
to me, as to Peter, the

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one of circumcision, for he who
acted in Peter for the apostolate of circumcision,

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acted also in me toward the Gentiles
and recognizing the grace that had been

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given to me. James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as

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pillars. They gave me Barnabas'
s right hand as a sign of fellowship,

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that we might go to the Gentiles
and Helios to circumcision. They only

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asked us to remember the poor,
which I also diligently tried to do.

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But when Peter came to Antioch,
I resisted him face to face because he

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was to be condemned, for before
some came from James He ate with the

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Gentiles. But after they came he
retreated and departed because he was afraid of

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those of circumcision and in its simulation
the other Jews also participated, so that

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a Barnabas was also dragged away by
the hypocrisy of Helios. But when I

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saw that they did not walk uprightly
according to the truth of the Gospel,

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I said to Peter before all.
If you, being a Jew, live

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like the Gentiles and not as a
Jew, why do you compel the Gentiles

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to Judaize us Jews by birth and
not sinners from among the Gentiles, knowing

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that man is not justified by the
works of the law, but by the

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faith of Jesus Christ. We too
have believed in Jesus Christ to be justified

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by the faith of Christ and not
by the works of the law. For

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by the works of the law,
no one shall be justified. And if

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seeking to be justified in Christ,
we too are found sinners. That is

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why, Christ, Minister, of
sin in no way, for if the

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things that I destroyed them I build
again transgressor. I do myself because by

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the law, I am dead to
the law in order to live for God

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with Christ, I am crucified and
no longer live, but Christ lives in

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me and what I now live in
the flesh, I live in the faith

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of the son of God, who
loved me and gave himself. For I

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do not cast off the grace of
God, for if righteousness were by the

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law, then Christ died for the
rest.