¹¹But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was condemned. ¹²For before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he^* was afraid of those who were of the circumcision, ¹³and the rest of the Jews also joined in this hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with them in their hypocrisy. ¹⁴But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of them all, “If you, although you^* are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Justified by Faith in Christ

¹⁵We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles, ¹⁶but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ,^c and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ^d and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified^e.

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Footnotes

*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was afraid of”) which is understood as causal
*Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as concessive
cOr “by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ”
dOr “by the faithfulness of Christ”
eLiterally “all flesh will not be justified”