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Galatians 2:11

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But when Peter came to Antioch, I challenged him directly, because he was clearly wrong.

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But elders who are sinning should be corrected in front of everyone else, as a warning to the others.

When I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the good news, I spoke to Peter in front of everyone. I said, “You’re a Jew, but you live like a Gentile, not a Jew. So why are you trying force the Gentiles to follow Jewish ways?

So from now on we don’t look at anyone from the world’s point of view. Once we even looked at Christ that way, but we don’t anymore.

Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and started teaching the believers, “If you aren’t circumcised the way Moses commanded, you can’t be saved.”

Dear friends, I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share. But I felt that I had to write and urge you to stand up for the faith that God’s holy people have been trusted with once and for all time.

We all fail in many ways. If someone never says the wrong thing, then they’re a perfect person who’s able to keep their whole body under control.

James, Peter, and John, who are respected as pillars in the church, recognized that God had given me this privilege. So they shook hands with Barnabas and me to welcome us as partners. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles while they went to the Jews.

It was just the opposite! They recognized that I had been trusted with the task of preaching the good news to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been trusted with preaching to the Jews.

But we didn’t give in to them for a moment, in order to protect the truth of the good news for you.

I’ve made a fool of myself, but you forced me to. You should have been the ones to praise me. I’m not the least bit inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I’m nothing.

Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You’re like a rock in my path to trip me. You’re not thinking about what God wants. You’re only thinking about what people want.”

I don’t think I’m the least bit inferior those “super-apostles.”

Some of the believers who’d been scattered by the attacks that started after Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, spreading the word among Jews.

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You’re Simon, the son of John, but you’ll be known as Cephas.” (Cephas means Peter, or Rock.)

But other believers from Cyprus and Cyrene went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also. They told them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

When the church in Jerusalem heard about this, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

In those days some prophets came down to Antioch from Jerusalem.

Some of the believers who were Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles have to be circumcised and obey the law of Moses.”

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to get to know Peter. I stayed with him for 15 days.




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