Gálatas 2

1 Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. 2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. 4 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 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 But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised— 8 for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles— 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. 10 They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

15 "We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners, 16 yet knowing that a man is not 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 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 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. 19 For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives 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 I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

Ko Pāora rātou ko ērā atu Āpōtoro

1 Muri iho, kia pahure ngā tau tekau mā whā, ka haere anō ahau ki Hiruhārama māua ko Pānapa, me te mau anō i a Taituha hei hoa mōku. 2 Nā te whakakitenga mai hoki ahau i haere ai, ā, whakatakotoria ana e ahau ki a rātou te rongopai e kauwhautia nei e ahau ki ngā tauiwi; otiia, i meatia pukutia ki te hunga whai ingoa, kei maumau kau tāku oma onāianei, ō mua rā rānei. 3 Kīhai ia a Taituha tōku hoa, he Kariki nei ia, i meinga kia kotia. 4 Mō ngā tēina teka hoki i whakaurua pukutia mai, i haere puku mai nei ki te tirotiro i tō mātou āhua, he herekore i roto i a Karaiti Īhu, kia whakataurekareka ai rātou i a mātou. 5 Kīhai rawa mātou i whakangāwari iho, i rongo ki a rātou, ahakoa kotahi hāora; he mea kia mau ai te pono o te rongopai ki a koutou.

6 Otirā, ko te hunga whai ingoa – ahakoa he aha rātou, kāhore tahi he tikanga ki ahau: kāhore a te Atua whakapai ki te kanohi tangata – kīhai rātou, te hunga whai ingoa, i whakaatu mea ki ahau. 7 Engari i tō rātou kitenga kua tukua ki ahau te rongopai ki te kotingakore, pērā hoki me tērā ki te kotinga kua tukua rā ki a Pita; 8 ko te kaimahi hoki i roto i a Pita hei āpōtoro ki te kotinga, mahi ana anō ia i roto i ahau ki ngā tauiwi. 9 Nā, nō rātou ka mātau ki te aroha noa kua hōmai ki ahau, ka hōmai e Hēmi, e Kipa, e Hoani, i meinga nei hei pou, ngā ringa matau hei whakahoatanga ki a māua ko Pānapa, mō māua kia haere ki ngā tauiwi, ko rātou ia ki te kotinga. 10 Otiia, me mahara māua ki te hunga rawakore; he mea anō hoki tēnā i hihiko ai ahau.

Ka Whakatūpehupehu a Pāora ki a Pita i Anitioka

11 Nā, i te taenga mai o Kipa ki Anatioka, ka whakatika atu ahau ki a ia he kanohi, he kanohi, nō te mea kua tika kia whakahēngia ia. 12 I mua hoki o te taenga mai o ētahi i a Hēmi, e kai tahi ana ia me ngā tauiwi. Nō tō rātou taenga mai ia, neke atu ana ia, momotu kē ana i a ia; i mataku hoki ki te hunga o te kotinga. 13 I uru anō ērā atu Hūrai ki tōna tinihanga; heoi, riro pū a Pānapa i tō rātou tinihanga.

14 Otirā, i tōku kitenga kīhai rātou i haere tika i runga i te pono o te rongopai, ka mea ahau ki a Kipa i te aroaro o rātou katoa, ki te mea, "Ko koe, he Hūrai, ka whakatauiwi i a koe, ā, kāhore e whakahūrai, me pēhea e taea ai e koe te mea ngā tauiwi kia Hūrai?"

Ka Ora ngā Hūrai, ngā Tauiwi i runga i te Whakapono

15 "Ko tātou, ko ngā Hūrai tupu nei, ehara nei i te hunga hara nō ngā tauiwi, 16 kua mōhio nei ehara ngā mahi a te ture i te mea e tika ai te tangata, engari ko te whakapono ki a Īhu Karaiti; kua whakapono anō tātou ki a Īhu Karaiti, kia meinga ai te whakapono ki a te Karaiti hei tika mō tātou, kāhore ia ngā mahi a te ture; nō te mea kāhore rawa he kikokiko e tika i ngā mahi o te ture.

17 "Nā, i a tātou e whai nei kia whakatikaia i roto i a te Karaiti, ki te kitea tātou nei he hunga hara, he minita rānei a te Karaiti ki te hara? Kāhore rāpea. 18 Ki te mea hoki ka hangā anō e ahau ngā mea i wāhia e ahau, e whakakite ana ahau i ahau anō, he tangata hara. 19 Nā te ture hoki ahau i tūpāpaku ai ki te ture, kia ora ai ahau ki te Atua. 20 Kua rīpekatia tahitia ahau me te Karaiti; ā, e ora nei, ehara i te mea ko ahau, engari ko te Karaiti e ora ana i roto i ahau. E ora nei hoki ahau i roto i te kikokiko, he oranga nā te whakapono ki te Tama a te Atua, i aroha nei ki ahau, i tuku nei i a ia mōku. 21 Kāhore āku whakakāhore i te aroha noa o te Atua; mehemea hoki i nā runga mai te tika i te ture, maumau mate noa a te Karaiti."