Galatians 2:12

New Testament Epistle (Pauline) ASV (1901)

For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision.

Galatians 2:12 — American Standard Version

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Context — Galatians 2

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9and when they perceived the grace that was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision;

10only [they would] that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

11But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned.

12For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision.

13And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.

14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

15We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

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