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Galatians 2:2

James Moffatt - New Testament

(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

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Besides, the so-called 'authorities' (it makes no difference to me what their status used to be — God pays no regard to the externals of men), these 'authorities' had no additions to make to my gospel.

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air —

but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.

I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

So the whole meeting was quieted and listened to Barnabas and Paul recounting the signs and wonders God had performed by them among the Gentiles.

On arriving at Jerusalem they were received by the church, the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported how God had been with them and what he had done.

Give him a welcome in the Lord, then, with your hearts full of joy. Value men like that,

and when he chose to reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him to the Gentiles, instead of consulting with any human being,

On the following night the Lord stood by Paul and said, "Courage! As you have testified to me at Jerusalem, so you must testify at Rome."

And the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "Have no fear, speak on and never stop,

But a Pharisee in the Sanhedrin called Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law who was highly respected by all the people, got up and ordered the apostles to be removed for a few moments.

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves.

As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question.

You see, it is not a question of human will or effort but of the divine mercy.

There is nothing to be gained by this sort of thing, but as I am obliged to boast, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

no man put it into my hands, no man taught me what it meant, I had it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

You were doing splendidly. Who was it that prevented you from obeying the Truth?

I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,




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