To: Alan Markoff who wrote (26855 ) 9/13/1999 2:27:00 PM From: Jamey Read Replies (3) | Respond to
I think that Paul had the Jewish crowd figured out when he made these comments. It is easy to see where your attitude comes from.6But from those who seemed to be something?whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man?for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me. 7But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter 8(for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles), 9and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do. 13And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. ?If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, œwhy do you compel Gentiles to live as œJews? 15We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. 17?But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! 18For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. 20I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.?
