Galatalaisille 2
1 Sitte neljäntoistakymmenen vuoden perästä menin minä taas Barnabaan kanssa ylös Jerusalemiin ja otin Tituksen kanssani,
After 14 years passed, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas. I took Titus also.
2 Ja minä menin ylös ilmoituksen jälkeen ja asetin heidän eteensä sen evankeliumin, jota minä pakanain seassa julistan: mutta erinomaisesti niiden eteen, jotka jonakin pidetään, etten minä hukkaan juoksisi elikkä olisi jo juossut.
But [I tell you that] I went up there because of what God revealed to me. [It was not because someone there asked me to come]. I told people what was the good message that I was preaching in regions where non-Jews live. But I talked privately to those whom your new teachers highly respect. I did that in order that what I was doing and what I had done [MET] might not become useless [MET] [as a result of people rejecting my message because they thought that I was teaching something that was not true].
3 Mutta ei Titustakaan, joka minun kanssani oli, vaadittu itsiänsä ympärileikkauttamaan, vaikka hän Grekiläinen oli.
But [even though the leaders of the believers usually insisted that when non-Jews trusted in Christ someone must circumcise them], they did not even insist that Titus be circumcised, even though he was a Greek man who was with me.
4 Sillä kuin muutamat väärät veljet tunkeutuivat sisälle, ja jo olivat tulleet sisälle koettelemaan meidän vapauttamme, joka meillä Kristuksessa Jesuksessa on, että he meitä orjuuteen vaatisivat;
[I talked to them privately] because some people [successfully] pretended that they were fellow believers and associated with the true believers. They did that in order that they might observe closely what we do because we are free [from having to obey all the Jewish laws and rituals] because of our close relationship with Christ Jesus [MET]. Those people wanted to make us [like] slaves [MET] [of those rituals by convincing us that we cannot trust Christ solely but that we must also obey all the Jewish rituals].
5 Emmepä me tosin niille hetkeksikään myöntyneet kuuliaisuuteen, että evankeliumin totuus teidän tykönänne pysyväinen olis.
But not even briefly did we [(exc)] do what they wanted [about circumcision. We(exc) resisted them] in order that the truth of the message about Christ might continue to [benefit] you.
6 Mutta niihin, jotka jonakin pidetään, minkäkaltaiset he muinen olivat, ei minun mitään tule: ei Jumala katso ihmisen muotoa; sillä ne, jotka jonakin pidetään, ei minulle mitään opettaneet.
The [leaders in Jerusalem], whom your new teachers respect, did not add anything to what I preach. [And I would add that] what status those leaders had did not influence me, because God does not favor certain/important persons [IDM] more than others.
7 Vaan sitä vastaan, kuin he näkivät, että minulle evankeliumi esinahan puoleen uskottu oli, niinkuin Pietarille ympärileikkauksen puoleen;
Instead of those leaders adding to the message that I tell people, they understood that I had been given the good message {God had given the good message to me} so that I might proclaim it to the non-Jews [MTY], just like [God] had given the good message to Peter so that he might tell it to those who are Jews [MTY].
8 (Sillä joka Pietarin kanssa oli voimallinen apostolin virassa ympärileikkauksen seassa, se on minunkin kanssani pakanain seassa voimallinen ollut, )
That is, just like [God] had empowered/authorized Peter in order that he might be an apostle [to bring God’s message] to the Jews [MTY], he also had empowered/authorized me in order that I might be an apostle to [bring his message to] the non-Jews.
9 Ja kuin he tunsivat sen armon, joka minulle annettu oli, niin Jakob ja Kephas ja Johannes, jotka patsaina pidettiin, antoivat minulle ja Barnabaalle kättä ja sopivat niin meidän kanssamme, että meidän pakanain seassa ja heidän ympärileikkauksen seassa saarnaaman piti,
And [those leaders] knew that God had kindly given to me this special work. So James, Peter, and John, the ones whom your new teachers [respect because they are] leaders [MET] [of the believers], shook hands with us [IDM] [to show that they agreed that Barnabas and I are serving the Lord just like they are, and that we are preaching the same message that they are preaching]. They also agreed that we [(exc)] are the ones whom God was sending to [tell his message to] non-Jews, but that God is sending them to [tell his message to] Jews [MTY].
10 Ainoastaan että meidän piti vaivaisia muistaman, jota minä myös olen ahkeroinut tehdä.
They merely urged that we [(exc)] still remember to help the poor [fellow believers who live in Jerusalem]. That is exactly what I have been eager to do.
11 Mutta kuin Pietari Antiokiaan tuli, niin minä olin julkisesti häntä vastaan, että kanne oli tullut hänen päällensä.
But [later while I was at] Antioch [city], after Peter came there, I told him directly [SYN] that what he was doing was wrong.
12 Sillä ennenkuin joku Jakobin tyköä tuli, söi hän pakanain kanssa; vaan kuin ne tulivat, vältti hän, ja eroitti itsensä heistä, peljäten niitä, jotka ympärileikkauksesta olivat,
[This is what happened]: [Peter went to Antioch and started eating regularly with non-Jewish believers there]. Later there were certain [Jewish believers who] came [to Antioch who claimed that] James, [the leader of the congregations in Jerusalem], had sent them. But when [those certain] men came, Peter gradually quit [eating] with the non-Jewish believers and would not associate with them. He was afraid that the Jewish [believers from Jerusalem would criticize him for associating with non-Jews].
13 Ja muutkin Juudalaiset viekastelivat hänen kanssansa, niin että Barnabaskin vieteltiin heidän ulkokullaisuudellansa.
Also, the other Jewish [believers who were in Antioch] [SYN] acted (insincerely/in a way that they knew was not right) along with [Peter]. The result was that they convinced even Barnabas to [stop associating with the non-Jewish believers]!
14 Mutta kuin minä sen näin, ettei he oikein vaeltaneet evankeliumin totuuden jälkeen, sanoin minä Pietarille julkisesti kaikkein kuullen: jos sinä, joka Juudalainen olet, pakanain tavalla elät ja et Juudalaisten, miksis vaadit pakanoita Juudalaisten tavalla elämään?
But when I realized that they were not acting according to the truth of the message about Christ, [when] all [the fellow believers there] were present, I told Peter [the following]: “Although you [(sg)] are a Jew, [you often conduct yourself] like non-Jews [do by disregarding Jewish laws about food. When you are among non-Jews], you [(sg)] do not customarily conduct yourself at all like Jews [do]. So, (now it is wrong that you [(sg)] are causing non-Jews [to think that they must obey all] the Jewish rituals and customs!/why are you [(sg)] causing non-Jews [to think that they must obey all] the Jewish rituals and customs?) [RHQ]”
15 Me jotka olemme Juudalaiset luonnon puolesta ja emme syntiset pakanoista:
Some of us [believers] were born as Jews. We [(exc)] were not born as non-Jews. [We Jews have always considered non-Jews to be] ‘sinners’ [because they do not obey the Jewish rituals and laws].
16 Että me tiedämme, ettei ihminen lain töiden kautta vanhurskaaksi tule, vaan uskon kautta Jesuksen Kristuksen päälle: niin me myös olemme uskoneet Jesuksen Kristuksen päälle, että me vanhurskaaksi tulemme uskon kautta Kristuksen päälle, ja emme lain töiden kautta, sentähden ettei yksikään liha tule lain töiden kautta vanhurskaaksi.
But we [(exc)] now know that it is not because some person obeys the laws [that God gave to Moses] that [God] erases the record of that person’s sins. [God erases the record of a person’s sins only if that person trusts in what Jesus Christ has done]. Even we [(exc)] Jews trusted Christ Jesus. We [(exc)] did that in order that [God] would erase the record of our sins because of our trusting Christ, and not because of our obeying the laws [that God gave to Moses. God has said that] he will [never] erase the record of people’s sins just because of their obeying those laws.
17 Mutta jos me, koska me tahdomme Kristuksen kautta vanhurskaaksi tulla, löydetään myös itse syntisiksi, onko siis Kristus synnin palvelia? Pois se!
Furthermore, because we [(exc) Jews] desired that [God] would erase the record of our sins because of our relationship with Christ, [it means that] we realized that we ourselves were sinners [like non-Jews, whom we called] sinners, [because we(exc) also were not obeying the Jewish rituals and laws]. [But] ([we(inc) certainly cannot conclude] that it is Christ who causes us to sin./[should we conclude] that it is Christ who causes us to sin?) [RHQ] [No, Christ] certainly does not [cause anyone to sin].
18 Sillä jos minä sitä taas rakennan, jota minä särkenyt olen, niin minä teen itseni ylitsekäyväksi.
So if I should again believe [that God would erase the record of my sins because of my obeying the laws that he gave to Moses] [MET], [I would be like a man who] rebuilds an old building that he tore down. It would [soon] be clear that I am one who disobeys those same laws [that God gave to Moses].
19 Mutta minä olen lain kautta laista kuollut pois, että minä Jumalassa eläisin.
When [I realized that I could not earn God’s favor] by [obeying] the laws [that he gave to Moses, I decided not] to [respond to what those laws demanded] [MET], [just like] a dead person [does not respond to anything]. Now I live to [honor/serve] God.
20 Minä olen Kristuksen kanssa ristiinnaulittu. Mutta minä elän, en silleen minä, vaan Kristus elää minussa; sillä jota minä nyt elän lihassa, sen minä elän Jumalan Pojan uskossa, joka on minua rakastanut ja antoi itsensä minun edestäni.
[It is as though] I was with Christ when he was crucified {died on the cross} [MET] (OR, [It is as though] my [old way of life ended when] Christ died on the cross.) No longer am I [directing the way I behave as I did before I believed in Christ]. Now Christ [is directing how] I [behave. And whatever I do] now while I live, I do it trusting in God’s Son. He is the one who loved me and offered himself [as a sacrifice] for me.
21 En minä hylkää Jumalan armoa; sillä jos vanhurskaus tulee laista, niin on Kristus hukkaan kuollut.
I am not rejecting [as useless] what God [did for me] ([kindly/that I did not deserve]), [as my opponents are doing. I fully accept that God saved me by acting kindly towards me]. If it is because people [obey the] laws [that God gave to Moses] that God erases the record of their sins, then Christ died (for nothing/needlessly).
