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Galatians 2 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Después de 14 años subí otra vez a Jerusalén con Bernabé, y también llevé a Tito.
1 Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
2 Subí según una revelación. Para no correr ni haber corrido en vano, expuse en privado a los de cierta reputación las Buenas Noticias que predico entre los gentiles.
2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
3 Ni aun Tito, el griego que estaba conmigo, fue obligado a circuncidarse
3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
4 por motivo de los falsos hermanos que entraron solapadamente para espiar la libertad que tenemos en Cristo Jesús, a fin de esclavizarnos.
4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,
5 Ni por un momento cedimos a someternos a ellos, para que la verdad de las Buenas Noticias permaneciera con ustedes.
5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
6 Los de reputación que parecían ser algo, nada me impartieron. Lo que eran no me interesa, Dios no hace acepción de personas.
6 But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
7 Por otra parte, al considerar que las Buenas Noticias para los no circuncidados me fueron confiadas, como a Pedro, las Buenas Noticias para los circuncidados
7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—
8 (porque el que actuó en Pedro para el apostolado a los judíos también actuó en mí para los gentiles),
8 for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—
9 y después de reconocer la gracia que me fue dada, Jacobo, Cefas y Juan, los que parecían ser columnas, nos dieron las manos derechas de comunión a mí y a Bernabé, para que nosotros fuéramos a los gentiles, y ellos a los judíos.
9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
10 Solo nos pidieron que nos acordemos de los pobres. Yo también anhelaba hacer esto.
10 They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
11 Pero cuando Cefas fue a Antioquía, le resistí cara a cara porque era digno de reprensión.
11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12 Porque antes de llegar algunos de parte de Jacobo, [Cefas] comía con los gentiles. Pero cuando llegaron, al atemorizarse de los judíos, se retraía y se apartaba.
12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
13 Los demás judíos se unieron a él en su hipocresía, de tal manera que aun Bernabé fue arrastrado por la hipocresía de ellos.
13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 Pero cuando noté que no actuaban rectamente en cuanto a la verdad de las Buenas Noticias, dije a Cefas delante de todos: Si tú, que eres judío, vives como gentil y no como judío, ¿cómo obligas a los gentiles a vivir según las costumbres judías?
14 But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
15 Nosotros, judíos por naturaleza, y no pecadores de entre [los] gentiles,
15 “We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,
16 después de saber que un hombre no es declarado justo por [las ]obras de [la] Ley, sino por [la ]fe en Jesucristo, también creímos en Jesucristo, para que fuéramos declarados justos por [la ]fe en Cristo, y no por [las ]obras de [la ]Ley. Porque por [las ]obras de [la ]Ley ningún humano será declarado justo.
16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
17 Si al buscar ser declarados justos en Cristo, también nosotros mismos fuimos hallados pecadores, ¿es entonces Cristo un ministro de pecado? ¡Claro que no!
17 But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
18 Porque si edifico otra vez las cosas que destruí, muestro que soy transgresor.
18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
19 Porque yo, por medio de [la] Ley morí a [la] Ley, a fin de vivir para Dios. Con Cristo fui juntamente crucificado,
19 For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
20 y ya no vivo yo, sino Cristo vive en mí. Lo que ahora vivo en [el] cuerpo, lo vivo en [la ]fe en el Hijo de Dios, Quien me amó y se entregó por mí.
20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.
21 No declaro inválida la gracia de Dios, porque si por [la] Ley [hubiera] justicia, entonces Cristo murió sin propósito.
21 I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Titus
A Greek coworker of Paul, not compelled to be circumcised, who carried Paul's letters to Corinth, and whom Paul left in Crete to set things in order.
Cited in the guide: 2 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 8:23; Galatians 2:3
Places
Antioch (Syrian)
The empire's third-largest city and the first major Gentile church — the launching base for Paul's journeys. (Distinct from Pisidian Antioch.)
Cited in the guide: Acts 11:26; Acts 13:1-3; Galatians 2:11
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Galatians 2:3; Acts 15:2–4; Acts 14:12; 2 Corinthians 8:16; Galatians 2:13
- 2 Galatians 2:6; Philippians 2:16; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; 1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 9:26
- 3 Acts 16:3; Galatians 5:2–6; 1 Corinthians 9:20–21; 2 Corinthians 2:13; Acts 15:24
- 4 Galatians 5:1; Jude 4; 2 Peter 2:1–2; 1 John 4:1; Galatians 5:12–13
- 5 Galatians 4:16; Galatians 2:14; Colossians 2:4–8; Colossians 1:5; Jude 3
- 6 Galatians 2:2; Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 11:5
- 7 1 Thessalonians 2:4; Acts 9:15; 1 Timothy 2:7; Galatians 1:16; Acts 13:46–48
- 8 Acts 22:21; Acts 9:15; Acts 15:12; Acts 2:14–41; Acts 21:19
- 9 Romans 12:3; Revelation 3:12; Ephesians 3:8; Galatians 2:2; Acts 15:22–30
- 10 1 John 3:17; Hebrews 13:16; Acts 24:17; 2 Corinthians 8:1–9; 1 Corinthians 16:1–2
- 11 1 Timothy 5:20; Galatians 2:14; Acts 15:1; 2 Corinthians 5:16; Galatians 2:5
- 12 Acts 10:28; Luke 15:2; Ephesians 3:6; Acts 11:2–3; Matthew 26:69–75
- 13 1 Corinthians 15:33; Hebrews 13:9; Ephesians 4:14; Ecclesiastes 10:1; Genesis 12:11–13
- 14 Acts 10:28; Galatians 2:5; Acts 15:10–11; 1 Timothy 5:20; Proverbs 2:7
- 15 Ephesians 2:3; Titus 3:3; Romans 3:9; Ephesians 2:11–12; Philippians 3:4
- 16 Philippians 3:9; Psalm 143:2; Romans 3:19–28; Romans 9:30; 1 Peter 1:18–21
- 17 Romans 6:1–2; 1 John 3:8–10; 1 John 3:5; Galatians 2:15; Matthew 1:21
- 18 Galatians 4:9–12; Galatians 2:4–5; Galatians 2:12–16; Romans 14:15; Galatians 2:21
- 19 Romans 7:4; Romans 6:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:10; Romans 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:15
- 20 Galatians 5:24; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Romans 6:4–6; Colossians 3:3–4; 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
- 21 Romans 11:6; Galatians 3:21; Hebrews 7:11; 1 Corinthians 15:14; Galatians 2:16
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… that Paul alone knew the truth, and that to him the mystery was manifested by revelation, let Paul himself convict them, when he says, that one and the same God wrought in Peter for the apostolate of the circumcision, and in himself for the Gentiles. Peter, therefore, was an apostle of that very God whose was also Paul; and Him …
… the Son is the work of the Father, since it is written, "Who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all;" and that the Passion of the Son was His own work also, "Who loved me, and gave Himself for me." The Father delivered up the Son, and the Son delivered up Himself.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
"For He that wrought effectually in Peter," it is said, "to the apostleship of the circumcision, was mighty also in me towards the Gentiles." For since on seeing the Son, they were wroth and slew Him, He bids them again by His servants.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
But I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that Gospel which I preached among the Gentiles." And again he says, "For an hour we did give place to subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you." If, then, any one shall, from the Acts of the Apostles, carefully scrutinize the time concerning which it is …
But the Apostle says, "If righteousness come by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain." What the Apostle says of the Law, that say we of nature to these men.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)