¹¹When Cephas came to Antioch, I had to openly oppose him because he was completely wrong. ¹²He ate with people who were not Jewish until some men James had sent ⸤from Jerusalem⸥ arrived. Then Cephas drew back and would not associate with people who were not Jewish. He was afraid of those who insisted that circumcision was necessary. ¹³The other Jewish Christians also joined him in this hypocrisy. Even Barnabas was swept along with them.

¹⁴But I saw that they were not properly following the truth of the Good News. So I told Cephas in front of everyone, “You’re Jewish, but you live like a person who is not Jewish. So how can you insist that people who are not Jewish must live like Jews?”

¹⁵We are Jewish by birth, not sinners from other nations. ¹⁶Yet, we know that people don’t receive God’s approval by any effort to follow the laws in the Scriptures, but only by believing in Jesus Christ. So we also believed in Jesus Christ in order to receive God’s approval by faith in Christ and not by our own efforts. People won’t receive God’s approval by their own efforts.

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