Galatians 2:4-5
2:4 Now this matter arose
because of the false brothers with false pretenses
who slipped in unnoticed to spy on
our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.
2:5 But
we did not surrender to them
even for a moment,
in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
Galatians 2:12-16
2:12 Until
certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this
and separated himself
because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.
2:13 And the rest of the Jews also joined with him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray with them
by their hypocrisy.
2:14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas
in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force
the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
Jews and Gentiles are Justified by Faith
2:15 We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,
2:16 yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 2:21
2:21 I do not set aside
God’s grace, because if righteousness
could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!