Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. 2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Injil which I preach among the nations, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. 3But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. 4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in al-Masih ‘Isa, that they might bring us into bondage; 5to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Injil might continue with you. 6But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; Allah does not show partiality to man)–they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, 7but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Injil for the non-Jews[1], even as Peter with the Injil for the Jews[2] 8(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the Jews appointed me also to the nations); 9and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the nations, and they to the Jews[3]. 10They only asked us to remember the poor–which very thing I was also zealous to do.
11But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned. 12For before some people came from James, he ate with the non-Jews. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing the Jews[4]. 13And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Injil, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the non-Jews do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the non-Jews to live as the Jews do?
15“We are Jews by nature, and not non-Jewish “sinners.” 16Yet we know that a man is not justified by the obeying the shariah in the Taurat, but through faith in ‘Isa al-Masih. We believed in al-Masih ‘Isa that we might be justified by faith in al-Masih, and not by obeying shariah, because no one will be justified by observing shariah. 17But if, while we sought to be justified in al-Masih, we ourselves also were found sinners, is al-Masih a servant of sin? Certainly not! 18For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. 19For I, through shariah, died to shariah, that I might live to Allah. 20I have been crucified with al-Masih, and it is no longer I that live, but al-Masih living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in Ibn Allah , who loved me, and gave himself up for me. 21I do not nullify the grace of Allah. For if righteousness could come through observing shariah, then al-Masihdied for nothing!“
[1] 2:7 literally, “the uncircumcision“
[2] 2:7 literally, “the circumcision“
[3] 2:9 literally, “the circumcision“
[4] 2:12 literally, “those who were of the circumcision“