Bible Devotions: New Testament and Bible meanings

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Galatians (KJV)     

Gal 2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
 

Gal 2:12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
 

Gal 2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
 

Gal 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
 

Gal 2:15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
 

Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
 

Gal 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
 

Gal 2:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
 

Gal 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
 

Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
 

Gal 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

        

                  Bible Meanings  - Paul withstood Peter / Antioch - v. 11
    

      
Gal 2:11

Peter — “Cephas” in the oldest manuscripts Paul’s withstanding Peter is the strongest proof that the former gives of the independence of his apostleship in relation to the other apostles, and upsets the Romish doctrine of Peter’s supremacy. The apostles were not always inspired; but were so always in writing the Scriptures. If then the inspired men who wrote them were not invariably at other times infallible, much less were the uninspired men who kept them. The Christian fathers may be trusted generally as witnesses to facts, but not implicitly followed in matters of opinion.
 

come to Antioch — then the citadel of the Gentile Church: where first the Gospel was preached to idolatrous Gentiles, and where the name “Christians” was first given (Act_11:20, Act_11:26), and where Peter is said to have been subsequently bishop. The question at Antioch was not whether the Gentiles were admissible to the Christian covenant without becoming circumcised - that was the question settled at the Jerusalem council just before - but whether the Gentile Christians were to be admitted to social intercourse with the Jewish Christians without conforming to the Jewish institution.

The Judaizers, soon after the council had passed the resolutions recognizing the equal rights of the Gentile Christians, repaired to Antioch, the scene of the gathering in of the Gentiles (Act_11:20-26), to witness, what to Jews would look so extraordinary, the receiving of men to communion of the Church without circumcision. Regarding the proceeding with prejudice, they explained away the force of the Jerusalem decision; and probably also desired to watch whether the Jewish Christians among the Gentiles violated the law, which that decision did not verbally sanction them in doing, though giving the Gentiles latitude (Act_15:19).
 

to be blamed — rather, “(self)-condemned”; his act at one time condemning his contrary acting at another time.
 

*Verses from KJV or ASV, definitions from Strong's Heb./Gk. Dictionaries.  All sources - esword, unless otherwise stated.
 

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