9 And when they had learned of the grace which had been given me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed pillars, gave me and Barnabas the hand of fellowship, that we might go to the Gentiles, and them to the circumcised,

10 Only that we may remember the poor, which I have tried to do exactly.

11 And when Peter came to Antioch, I personally opposed him, because he was reproached.

12 For before the arrival of some from Jacob, he ate with the Gentiles; and when they came, he hid himself and withdrew himself, fearing the circumcised.

13 And the rest of the Jews were hypocrites with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

14 But when I saw that they were not walking upright in the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of all, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live like the Jews?"

15 We are Jews by nature, and not of the Gentiles, sinners;

16 And yet, having learned that a man is not justified by works of the law, but only by faith in Jesus Christ, we also believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh can be justified.

17 If, however, in seeking justification in Christ, we ourselves have become sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? Nohow.

18 For if I build up again what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

19 By the law I died to the law, that I might live for God. I was crucified with Christ,

20 and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And since I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

21 I do not reject the grace of God; but if justification is by the law, then Christ died in vain.