Galatians 2
1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
十四年之后，我与巴拿巴一起返回耶路撒冷，还带上提多与我同行。
2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles. I spoke privately to those who seemed to be important, in order to make sure that I was not running—or had not run—in vain.
我去那里是顺应上帝的启示。在那里，我私下与有声望的教会领袖见面，解释我向异族人所传的福音。我不希望自己追随并为之奋斗的一切付诸东流。
3 But not even Titus, who was with me and who was a Greek, was forced to be circumcised.
但事实证明，尽管与我一起的提多是希腊人，并没有人坚持他应该接受割礼。
4 The false brothers came in secretly to spy on the liberty we have in Christ Jesus. They desired to make us slaves,
（之所以会出现这个问题，是因为一些假基督徒偷偷溜进来，窥探我们与基督耶稣同在所获得的自由，试图让我们成为奴隶。
5 but we did not yield in submission to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
我们绝不屈服于他们，哪怕只是片刻。我们想确保为你们守住这福音的真相。）
6 But those who seemed to be important (whatever they were does not matter to me, God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed important added nothing to me.
但我并不想在此谈论那些被视为重要的人物。（我不关心他们是什么样的领袖，因为上帝不会像我们那样判断人。）
7 On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to those who are uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to those who are circumcised.
相反，一旦他们意识到，我被赋予与异族人分享福音的责任，就像彼得被赋予与犹太人分享福音的责任，
8 For God, who worked in Peter for the apostleship to those who are circumcised, also worked in me to the Gentiles.
（这责任都来自于上帝，他通过彼得为使徒向犹太人传递福音，通过我为使徒向异族人传递福音），
9 When James, Cephas, and John, who were recognized as those who built up the church, understood the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me. They did this so that we should go to the Gentiles, and so that they should go to those who are circumcised.
当他们意识到，我以及雅各、彼得和约翰都获得了恩典，承担了教会领导的职责，于是就握住我和巴拿巴的右手，表示接纳我们作为他们的一员。
10 They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing that I was eager to do.
我们将为异族人工作，他们将为犹太人工作。他们唯一的指示就是记住要去照顾穷人，事实上我已经在努力这样做。
11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he was declared to be in the wrong.
然而，当彼得来到安提阿时，我不得不直接批评他，因为很显然他的行为是错误的。
12 Before certain men came from James, Cephas was eating with the Gentiles. But when these men came, he stopped and kept away from the Gentiles. He was afraid of those who were demanding circumcision.
在雅各的一些朋友来之前，彼得经常与异族人一起用餐。但是当这些人到来之后，他就不再这样做了，并且远离了异族人。他害怕那些坚持认为男人必须割礼的人批评他。
13 Also the rest of the Jews joined in this hypocrisy. Even Barnabas was led astray with them by their hypocrisy.
和彼得一样，其他犹太基督徒也开始装假，甚至连巴拿巴也受了影响，跟着他们一起装假。
14 But when I saw that their behavior was not following the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of all of them, “If you are a Jew but are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
我意识到他们并没有坚守福音的真相，于是就在所有人面前对彼得说：“如果你是犹太人，却像异族人而非犹太人那样生活，为什么要强迫异族人像犹太人一样生活？
15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
我们可能生来就是犹太人，而不是像异族人那样的‘罪人’，
16 yet we know that no person is justified by the works of the law but through faith in Christ Jesus. We also came to faith in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law. For by the works of the law no flesh will be justified.
但我们知道，任何人都不能通过遵守律法而被视为正直善良，只有通过相信耶稣基督才可以。我们已经相信基督耶稣，因此我们可以通过相信基督而非遵循律法成为正直善良之人，没有人通过遵守律法要求做到正直良善。”
17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we too, were found to be sinners, does Christ then promote sin? Absolutely not!
正因为如此，如果我们希望在基督那里成为正义之人，但却自证为罪人，难道这意味着基督服务于罪？当然不是！
18 For if I rebuild those things I once destroyed, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.
因为如果我要重建被自己摧毁的东西，这只能证明我在违背律法。
19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live for God.
通过律法，我因律法而死，这是为了上帝而活。
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
我已经与基督一起钉上十字架，所以活着的人不再是我，而是基督活在我的身体里。我在这个身体中拥有的生命，是因为信那爱我、且为我舍弃自己的上帝之子。
21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
我怎么能拒绝上帝的恩典？如果我们可以通过遵守律法而成为正直善良之人，那么基督之死就毫无意义！
