Galatians 2:14 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁴ So when I saw that they were not walking straight according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all: “If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, why do you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

²⁸ Then he said to them: “You know how it is unlawful for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a different race; but God has shown me that I should not call any man ‘common’ or unclean.

³ saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!” ⁴ So Peter began by explaining it to them in order, saying: ⁵ “I was in the town of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain object like a great sheet coming down out of the sky, being lowered by its four corners; and it came to me. ⁶ Upon peering into it I observed and distinguished the quadrupeds of the earth—both the wild animals and the reptiles—and the birds of the sky. ⁷ Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!’ ⁸ So I said, ‘No way, Lord! Never has anything common or unclean entered my mouth!’ ⁹ But the voice answered me, a second time, from heaven, ‘Things that God has made clean you must not call “common”.’ ¹⁰ Well this was done three times, and it was all pulled back up into the sky. ¹¹ At that very moment three men stopped in front of the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me. ¹² The Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. ¹³ He then related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, ¹⁴ who will speak words to you by which you and all your household will be saved.’ ¹⁵ Well as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as on us at the beginning. ¹⁶ I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with Holy Spirit’. ¹⁷ So if God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed upon the Lord Jesus, who was I to be able to withstand God?” ¹⁸ Upon hearing these things they acquiesced and started glorifying God, saying, “So then, God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance into life!”

¹⁰ Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? ¹¹ Rather, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they.”

¹⁹ Therefore I judge that we should not create difficulty for those who are turning to God from among the ethnic nations, ²⁰ but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from what is strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For from ancient generations Moses has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

²⁴ Since we have heard that some who went out from among us have disturbed you with words, unsettling your souls, saying that you must be circumcised and keep the law —to whom we gave no such authorization—

²⁸ It seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to place no greater burden upon you than these necessary things: ²⁹ to abstain from things offered to idols, from ‘blood’, from anything strangled and from fornication; it will be in your own best interest to keep away from these things. Farewell.”

¹⁴ I know and have been convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself (still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean),

³ However, not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, for being a Greek.

⁵ to whom we did not yield, even for a moment, so that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.—

⁷ but on the contrary, upon seeing that I had been entrusted with the Gospel for the uncircumcised, just as was Peter for the circumcised

⁹ and upon perceiving the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, while they to the Jews.

¹¹ But, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was blameworthy. ¹² Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision party. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews played the hypocrite with him as well, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

¹² Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh are pressuring you to be circumcised, but only so as not to be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

³ who forbid to marry and to eat foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and really know the truth. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, ⁵ because it is consecrated through the word of God and prayer.

²⁰ Those who are sinning rebuke publicly, so that the rest also may be in fear.

¹⁰ they were only about foods and drinks and various ceremonial washings and physical regulations, things imposed until the time of restructuring.

¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame not be turned aside but rather be healed.