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Gálatas 2

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1 Entonces, después de catorce años, subí otra vez a Jerusalén con Bernabé, llevando también a Tito.

2 Subí por causa de una revelación y les presenté el evangelio que predico entre los gentiles, pero lo hice en privado a los que tenían alta reputación, para cerciorarme de que no corría ni había corrido en vano.

3 Pero ni aun Tito, que estaba conmigo, fue obligado a circuncidarse, aunque era griego.

4 Y esto fue por causa de los falsos hermanos introducidos secretamente, que se habían infiltrado para espiar la libertad que tenemos en Cristo Jesús, a fin de someternos a esclavitud,

5 a los cuales ni por un momento cedimos, para no someternos, a fin de que la verdad del evangelio permanezca con vosotros.

6 Y de aquellos que tenían reputación de ser algo (lo que eran, nada me importa; Dios no hace acepción de personas), pues bien, los que tenían reputación, nada me enseñaron.

7 Sino al contrario, al ver que se me había encomendado el evangelio a los de la incircuncisión, así como Pedro lo había sido a los de la circuncisión

8 (porque aquel que obró eficazmente para con Pedro en su apostolado a los de la circuncisión, también obró eficazmente para conmigo en mi apostolado a los gentiles),

9 y al reconocer la gracia que se me había dado, Jacobo , Pedro y Juan, que eran considerados como columnas, nos dieron a mí y a Bernabé la diestra de compañerismo, para que nosotros fuéramos a los gentiles y ellos a los de la circuncisión.

10 Sólo nos pidieron que nos acordáramos de los pobres, lo mismo que yo estaba también deseoso de hacer.

11 Pero cuando Pedro vino a Antioquía, me opuse a él cara a cara, porque era de condenar.

12 Porque antes de venir algunos de parte de Jacobo, él comía con los gentiles, pero cuando vinieron, empezó a retraerse y apartarse, porque temía a los de la circuncisión.

13 Y el resto de los judíos se le unió en su hipocresía, de tal manera que aun Bernabé fue arrastrado por la hipocresía de ellos.

14 Pero cuando vi que no andaban con rectitud en cuanto a la verdad del evangelio, dije a Pedro delante de todos: Si tú, siendo judío, vives como los gentiles y no como los judíos, ¿por qué obligas a los gentiles a vivir como judíos?

15 Nosotros somos judíos de nacimiento y no pecadores de entre los gentiles;

16 sin embargo, sabiendo que el hombre no es justificado por las obras de la ley, sino mediante la fe en Cristo Jesús, también nosotros hemos creído en Cristo Jesús, para que seamos justificados por la fe en Cristo, y no por las obras de la ley; puesto que por las obras de la ley nadie será justificado.

17 Pero si buscando ser justificados en Cristo, también nosotros hemos sido hallados pecadores, ¿es Cristo, entonces, ministro de pecado? ¡De ningún modo!

18 Porque si yo reedifico lo que en otro tiempo destruí, yo mismo resulto transgresor.

19 Pues mediante la ley yo morí a la ley, a fin de vivir para Dios.

20 Con Cristo he sido crucificado, y ya no soy yo el que vive, sino que Cristo vive en mí; y la vida que ahora vivo en la carne, la vivo por fe en el Hijo de Dios, el cual me amó y se entregó a sí mismo por mí.

21 No hago nula la gracia de Dios, porque si la justicia viene por medio de la ley, entonces Cristo murió en vano.

The Message Bible MSG

1 Fourteen years after that first visit, Barnabas and I went up to Jerusalem and took Titus with us.

2 I went to clarify with them what had been revealed to me. At that time I placed before them exactly what I was preaching to the non-Jews. I did this in private with the leaders, those held in esteem by the church, so that our concern would not become a controversial public issue, marred by ethnic tensions, exposing my years of work to denigration and endangering my present ministry.

3 Significantly, Titus, non-Jewish though he was, was not required to be circumcised.

4 While we were in conference we were infiltrated by spies pretending to be Christians, who slipped in to find out just how free true Christians are. Their ulterior motive was to reduce us to their brand of servitude.

5 We didn't give them the time of day. We were determined to preserve the truth of the Message for you.

6 As for those who were considered important in the church, their reputation doesn't concern me. God isn't impressed with mere appearances, and neither am I. And of course these leaders were able to add nothing to the message I had been preaching.

7 It was soon evident that God had entrusted me with the same message to the non-Jews as Peter had been preaching to the Jews.

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9 Recognizing that my calling had been given by God, James, Peter, and John - the pillars of the church - shook hands with me and Barnabas, assigning us to a ministry to the non-Jews, while they continued to be responsible for reaching out to the Jews.

10 The only additional thing they asked was that we remember the poor, and I was already eager to do that.

11 Later, when Peter came to Antioch, I had a face-to-face confrontation with him because he was clearly out of line.

12 Here's the situation. Earlier, before certain persons had come from James, Peter regularly ate with the non-Jews. But when that conservative group came from Jerusalem, he cautiously pulled back and put as much distance as he could manage between himself and his non-Jewish friends. That's how fearful he was of the conservative Jewish clique that's been pushing the old system of circumcision.

13 Unfortunately, the rest of the Jews in the Antioch church joined in that hypocrisy so that even Barnabas was swept along in the charade.

14 But when I saw that they were not maintaining a steady, straight course according to the Message, I spoke up to Peter in front of them all: "If you, a Jew, live like a non-Jew when you're not being observed by the watchdogs from Jerusalem, what right do you have to require non-Jews to conform to Jewish customs just to make a favorable impression on your old Jerusalem cronies?"

15 We Jews know that we have no advantage of birth over "non-Jewish sinners."

16 We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ. How do we know? We tried it - and we had the best system of rules the world has ever seen! Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good.

17 Have some of you noticed that we are not yet perfect? (No great surprise, right?) And are you ready to make the accusation that since people like me, who go through Christ in order to get things right with God, aren't perfectly virtuous, Christ must therefore be an accessory to sin? The accusation is frivolous.

18 If I was "trying to be good," I would be rebuilding the same old barn that I tore down. I would be acting as a charlatan.

19 What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn't work. So I quit being a "law man" so that I could be God's man.

20 Christ's life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

21 I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God's grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.