Galatians 2

1 Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also.

1 十四年后，我和巴拿巴又去耶路撒冷，并带了提多同去。

2 I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.

2 我是遵照上帝的启示去的。我私下拜会了那些有名望的教会领袖，陈明我在外族人中间所传的福音，免得我过去或是现在的努力都白费了。

3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

3 跟我同去的提多虽然是希腊人，也没有人勉强他接受割礼。

4 This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

4 事情的缘由是因为有一些假信徒偷偷混了进来，要窥探我们在基督耶稣里享有的自由，想叫我们做律法的奴隶。

5 We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

5 但为了叫福音的真理常在你们当中，我们丝毫没有向他们妥协。

6 But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.

6 至于那些德高望重的教会领袖，他们的地位对我来说无关紧要，因为上帝不以貌取人。他们对我所传的并没有增加什么。

7 On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted to preach the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised.

7 相反，他们都已看到，上帝委托我向外族人传福音，就像祂委托彼得向犹太人传福音一样。

8 For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.

8 上帝感动了彼得，呼召他做犹太人的使徒，祂也同样感动了我，呼召我做外族人的使徒。

9 And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

9 当时被誉为教会柱石的雅各、矶法和约翰明白了上帝赐给我的恩典之后，就与我和巴拿巴用右手行相交之礼，让我们向外族人传福音，他们向受割礼的人传福音。

10 They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

10 他们只要求我们顾念那些贫困的人，这正是我一向热衷的事。

11 When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

11 后来，矶法到了安提阿，因他做错了事，我就当面反对他。

12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

12 从雅各那里来的人抵达之前，他和外族的信徒一起吃饭。但那些人抵达以后，他因为怕那些坚持行割礼的犹太人批评，就与外族的信徒分开了。

13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

13 其他犹太基督徒也跟着他装假，甚至连巴拿巴也随从了他们的虚伪。

14 When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

14 我看见他们不照福音的真理行，就当众对矶法说：“你身为犹太人，如果行事为人像外族人，不像犹太人，又怎能强迫外族人按犹太人的规矩生活呢？”

15 We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”

15 我们生来是犹太人，不是外族罪人，

16 know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

16 但我们知道人被称为义人不是靠遵行律法，而是靠信耶稣基督。所以我们信了基督耶稣，以便因信基督被称为义人，而不是靠遵行律法，因为无人能够靠遵行律法被称为义人。

17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!

17 如果我们寻求在基督里被称为义人，结果却仍是罪人，难道基督助长罪恶吗？当然不是！

18 If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

18 倘若我重建我所拆毁的东西，就表明我是罪人。

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

19 其实，我因无法满足律法的要求而向律法死了，使我可以为上帝而活。

20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

20 我已经与基督一同被钉在十字架上，现在活着的不再是我，而是基督活在我里面。我如今活在肉身中的生命是靠信上帝的儿子活着，祂爱我，为我舍命。

21 I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

21 我不废弃上帝的恩典，倘若靠遵行律法可以得到义，基督的死便毫无意义了。