加拉太書 2
1 過了十四年，我同巴爾納伯再上耶路撒冷去，還帶了弟鐸同去。
Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
2 我是受了啟示而上去的；我在那裡向他們陳述了我在異民中間所講的福音，和私下向那些有權威的人陳述過，免得我白白地奔跑，或者徒然奔走了。
I went up by revelation, and I explained to them the Good News which I preach among those who are not Jewish, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
3 但是，即連跟我的弟鐸，他雖是希臘人，也沒有被強迫領受割損，
But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
4 因為，有些潛入的假兄弟，曾要他受割損；但這些人潛入了教會，是為窺探我們在基督耶穌內所受有的自由，好使我們再成為奴隸；
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 可是對他們，我們連片刻時間也沒有讓步屈服，為使福音的真在你們中間保持不變。
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 至於那些所謂有權的人──不論他們以前是何等人物，與我毫不相干；天主決不顧情面──那些有權威的人也沒有另外吩咐我什麼；
But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people)—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
7 反而他們看出來，我是受了委託，向未受割損的人宣傳福音一樣；
but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
8 因為，那叫伯多祿為受割損的人致力盡宗徒之職的，也叫我為外邦人致力盡宗徒之職。
(for he who appointed Peter to be an apostle of the circumcision appointed me also to the non-Jews);
9 所以，他們一認清了所賦與我的恩寵，那稱為柱石的雅各伯、刻法和若望，就與我和巴爾納伯握手，表示通力合作，叫我們往外邦人那裡去，而他們卻往受割損的人那裡去。
and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the non-Jews, and they to the circumcised.
10 他們只要我們懷念窮人； 對言一點我也曾盡力行了。
They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
11 但是，當刻法來到安提約基雅時，我當面反對了他，因為他有可責的地方。
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12 原來由雅各伯那裡來了一些人，在他們未到以前，他慣常同外邦人一起吃飯；可是他們一來到了，他因怕那些受割損的人，就退避了，自己躲開。
For before some people came from James, he ate with those who were not Jewish. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
13 其餘的猶太人也跟著他一起裝假，以致連巴爾納伯也受了他們的牽弔而裝假。
And the rest of the Jewish believers joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 我一見他們的行為與福音的真理不合，就當著眾人對刻法說：「你是猶太人，竟按照外邦人的方式，而不按照猶太人的方式過活，你怎麼敢強迫外邦人猶太化呢﹖」
But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the non-Jews do, and not as the Jews do, how can you compel the non-Jews to live as the Jews do?
15 我們生來是猶太人，而不是出於外邦民族的罪人；
"We, being Jews by birth, and not non-Jewish sinners,
16 可是我們知道：人成義不是由於遵行法律，而只是因著耶穌基督的信仰，所以我們也信從了基督耶穌，為能由於對基督的信仰，而不由於遵行法律成義，因為由於遵守法律，任何人都不得成義。
yet knowing that no one is 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 如果我們在基督內求成義的人，仍如他們一樣被視為罪人，那麼基督豈不是成為支持罪惡的人了嗎﹖絕對不是。
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 如果我把我所拆毀的，再修建起來，我就證明我是個罪犯。
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
19 其實，我已由於法律而死於法律了，為能生活於天主；我己同基督被釘在十字架架了，
For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
20 所以，我生活己不是我生活， 而是基督在我內生活；我現今在肉身內生活，是生活在對於天主子的信仰內；祂愛了我，且為我捨棄了自己。
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living 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 我決不願使天主的恩寵無效，因為，如果成義是賴著法律，那麼，基督就白白地死了。
I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing."
