Galatifoɔ 2

1 Mfeɛ dunan akyi, me ne Barnaba sane kɔɔ Yerusalem. Mede Tito nso kaa me ho.

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

2 Mekɔeɛ ɛfiri sɛ, Onyankopɔn na ɔdaa no adi kyerɛɛ me sɛ menkɔ. Me ne mpanimfoɔ no yɛɛ nhyiamu kɔkoam kyerɛkyerɛɛ asɛmpa a meka mekyerɛɛ amanamanmufoɔ no mu kyerɛɛ wɔn. Na mempɛ sɛ mʼadwuma a mayɛ dada ne deɛ megu so reyɛ no yɛ ɔkwa.

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 Ɛwom sɛ me ɔboafoɔ Tito yɛ Helani deɛ, nanso wɔanhyɛ no sɛ ɔntwa twetia.

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

4 Asɛm yi siiɛ, ɛfiri sɛ anuanom bi a wɔnyɛ nokwafoɔ awia wɔn ho abɛfra yɛn mu a wɔrehwehwɛ ahofadie a yɛwɔ wɔ Kristo Yesu mu, na wɔde yɛn ayɛ nkoa.

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 Yɛamma wɔn mu kwan koraa, sɛdeɛ nokorɛ a ɛwɔ Asɛmpa no mu no bɛtena mo mu.

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 Wɔn a wɔfa wɔn ho sɛ wɔyɛ atitire no, sɛdeɛ wɔte biara no, meka sɛ, menhunu wɔn ntam nsonsonoeɛ biara. Onyankopɔn nhwɛ nnipa ho mmu atɛn; saa mpanimfoɔ no mfaa adwene foforɔ biara mmɛkaa mʼasɛm no ho.

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 Na mmom, wɔhunuu sɛ Onyankopɔn de dwuma no ahyɛ me nsa sɛ menka Asɛmpa no nkyerɛ amanamanmufoɔ sɛdeɛ ɔde dwuma no hyɛɛ Petro nsa sɛ ɔnka Asɛmpa no nkyerɛ Yudafoɔ no ara pɛ.

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 Na Onyankopɔn a ɔnam Petro so yɛ adwuma sɛ Yudafoɔ mu somafoɔ no ara na ɔnam me so yɛ adwuma wɔ amanamanmufoɔ mu sɛdeɛ Petro yɛ Yudafoɔ mu adwuma no pɛ.

(for he who appointed Peter to be an apostle of the circumcision appointed me also to the non-Jews);

9 Yakobo, Petro ne Yohane a na wɔfa no sɛ wɔyɛ mpanimfoɔ no gye too mu sɛ, Onyankopɔn ama me dwuma sononko bi sɛ menyɛ, enti wɔkyeaa me ne Barnaba. Wɔpenee so sɛ yɛnyɛ adwuma wɔ amanamanmufoɔ no mu na wɔn nso wɔnyɛ adwuma wɔ Yudafoɔ no mu.

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 Wɔbisaa sɛ yɛnkae ahiafoɔ wɔ wɔn kuo no mu sɛdeɛ mepɛ sɛ meyɛ no.

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

11 Ɛberɛ a Petro baa Antiokia no, metiaa deɛ ɔreyɛ no mu wɔ badwa mu, ɛfiri sɛ, na ɔreyɛ mfomsoɔ.

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

12 Ansa na mmarima bi a Yakobo somaa wɔn no bɛduruu hɔ no, na Petro ne anuanom amanamanmufoɔ no to nsa didi. Nanso, nnipa no bɛduruiɛ akyi no, ɔtwee ne ho a ɔne wɔn annidi bio, ɛfiri sɛ, na ɔsuro wɔn a wɔpɛ sɛ wɔtwa amanamanmufoɔ twetia no.

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 Anuanom Yudafoɔ a aka no yɛɛ sɛ ahufoɔ de wɔn ho bɔɔ Petro maa Barnaba nso de ne ho kɔbataa wɔn ho.

And the rest of the Jewish believers joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

14 Mehunuu sɛ deɛ wɔreyɛ no ne Asɛmpa no bɔ abira no, mekaa no wɔ Petro ne badwa no anim sɛ, “Woyɛ Yudani a seesei wonni Yudafoɔ amanneɛ so bio. Adɛn enti na wohyɛ amanamanmufoɔ sɛ wɔnni Yudafoɔ amanneɛ so?

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 “Ɛyɛ nokorɛ sɛ yɛyɛ Yudafoɔ firi yɛn awoɔ mu. Yɛnyɛ amanamanmufoɔ nnebɔneyɛfoɔ no.

"We, being Jews by birth, and not non-Jewish sinners,

16 Yɛnim sɛ ansa na obi bɛdi bem wɔ Onyankopɔn anim no, na gye sɛ wagye Yesu Kristo adi a ɛnyɛ sɛ ɔbɛyɛ deɛ mmara no hwehwɛ sɛ ɔnyɛ no. Yɛn nso, yɛagye Kristo Yesu adi sɛdeɛ yɛnam so bɛdi bem wɔ Onyankopɔn anim; ɛfiri sɛ, ɛnam gyidie so na wɔbɛbu yɛn bem, na ɛnyɛ mmara no apɛdeɛ a yɛyɛ no so.

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 “Sɛ yɛpɛ sɛ wɔbu yɛn bem wɔ Kristo mu na sɛ ɛda adi sɛ yɛn nso yɛyɛ nnebɔneyɛfoɔ a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ Kristo pene bɔne so? Ɛnte saa koraa.

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 Na sɛ mehyɛ aseɛ yɛ deɛ magyae a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ meyɛ mmaratofoɔ.

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

19 “Ɛfiri sɛ, mpɛn dodoɔ a mepɛɛ sɛ mɛdi mmara no so no, mmara no buu me fɔ. Mmara no ankasa akum me. Ɛno enti, menni mmara no tumi ase bio, sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, mɛtena ase mama Onyankopɔn mmom. Wɔabɔ me ne Kristo asɛnnua mu,

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

20 enti ɛnyɛ me na mete ase bio, na mmom, Kristo no na ɔte me mu. Saa asetena a mete mu seesei yi, mete ase wɔ Onyankopɔn Ba no a ɔdɔ me na ɔde ne nkwa maa me no gyidie mu.

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 Mempo Onyankopɔn adom no. Sɛ onipa nam Mmara so fata Onyankopɔn anim a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ Kristo wu a ɔwuiɛ no yɛ ɔkwa.”

I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing."