Galatians 2

1  THEN AFTER [an interval] of fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem. [This time I went] with Barnabas, taking Titus along with [me] also.2  I went because it was specially and divinely revealed to me that I should go, and I put before them the Gospel [declaring to them that] which I preach among the Gentiles. However, [I presented the matter] privately before those of repute, [for I wanted to make certain, by thus at first confining my communication to this private conference] that I was not running or had not run in vain [guarding against being discredited either in what I was planning to do or had already done].3  But [all went well!] even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled [as some had anticipated] to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.4  [My precaution was] because of false brethren who had been secretly smuggled in [to the Christian brotherhood]; they had slipped in to spy on our liberty and the freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might again bring us into bondage [under the Law of Moses].5  To them we did not yield submission even for a moment, that the truth of the Gospel might continue to be [preserved] for you [in its purity].6  Moreover, [no new requirements were made] by those who were reputed to be something--though what was their individual position and whether they really were of importance or not makes no difference to me; God is not impressed with the positions that men hold and He is not partial and recognizes no external distinctions--those [I say] who were of repute imposed no new requirements upon me [had nothing to add to my Gospel, and from them I received no new suggestions]. 7  But on the contrary, when they [really] saw that I had been entrusted [to carry] the Gospel to the uncircumcised [Gentiles, just as definitely] as Peter had been entrusted [to proclaim] the Gospel to the circumcised [Jews, they were agreeable];8  For He Who motivated and fitted Peter and worked effectively through him for the mission to the circumcised, motivated and fitted me and worked through me also for [the mission to] the Gentiles.9  And when they knew (perceived, recognized, understood, and acknowledged) the grace (God’s unmerited favor and spiritual blessing) that had been bestowed upon me, James and Cephas (Peter) and John, who were reputed to be pillars of the Jerusalem church, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, with the understanding that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised (Jews).10  They only [made one stipulation], that we were to remember the poor, which very thing I was also eager to do.11  But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I protested and opposed him to his face [concerning his conduct there], for he was blameable and stood condemned.12  For up to the time that certain persons came from James, he ate his meals with the Gentile [converts]; but when the men [from Jerusalem] arrived, he withdrew and held himself aloof from the Gentiles and [ate] separately for fear of those of the circumcision [party].13  And the rest of the Jews along with him also concealed their true convictions and acted insincerely, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy (their example of insincerity and pretense).14  But as soon as I saw that they were not straightforward and were not living up to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas (Peter) before everybody present, If you, though born a Jew, can live [as you have been living] like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how do you dare now to urge and practically force the Gentiles to [comply with the ritual of Judaism and] live like Jews?15  [I went on to say] Although we ourselves (you and I) are Jews by birth and not Gentile (heathen) sinners,16  Yet we know that a man is justified or reckoned righteous and in right standing with God not by works of the Law, but [only] through faith and [absolute] reliance on and adherence to and trust in Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). [Therefore] even we [ourselves] have believed on Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law [for we cannot be justified by any observance of the ritual of the Law given by Moses], because by keeping legal rituals and by works no human being can ever be justified (declared righteous and put in right standing with God). 17  But if, in our desire and endeavor to be justified in Christ [to be declared righteous and put in right standing with God wholly and solely through Christ], we have shown ourselves sinners also and convicted of sin, does that make Christ a minister (a party and contributor) to our sin? Banish the thought! [Of course not!]18  For if I [or any others who have taught that the observance of the Law of Moses is not essential to being justified by God should now by word or practice teach or intimate that it is essential to] build up again what I tore down, I prove myself a transgressor.19  For I through the Law [under the operation of the curse of the Law] have [in Christ’s death for me] myself died to the Law and all the Law’s demands upon me, so that I may [henceforth] live to and for God.20  I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.21  [Therefore, I do not treat God’s gracious gift as something of minor importance and defeat its very purpose]; I do not set aside and invalidate and frustrate and nullify the grace (unmerited favor) of God. For if justification (righteousness, acquittal from guilt) comes through [observing the ritual of] the Law, then Christ (the Messiah) died groundlessly and to no purpose and in vain. [His death was then wholly superfluous.]

갈라디아서 2

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1 그로부터 14년 후에 나는 바나바와 함께 디도를 데리고 다시 예루살렘으로 올라 갔습니다.

2 나는 하나님의 계시를 받고 예루살렘에 올라가 내가 이방인들에게 전파하는 기쁜 소식을 공식 석상에서 전하였고 지도자들에게는 개인적으로 설명했습니다. 그것은 내가 과거에 한 일과 현재 하는 일이 헛되지 않을까 염려해서였습니다.

3 나와 동행한 디도는 그리스 사람이었지만 억지로 할례를 받으라고 강요하지 않았습니다.

4 내가 이렇게 한 것은 몰래 들어온 거짓 형제들 때문이었습니다. 그들은 몰래 들어와 그리스도 예수님 안에서 우리가 가진 자유를 엿보고 우리를 다시 율법의 종으로 삼으려고 했습니다.

5 그러나 우리는 여러분을 언제나 기쁜 소식의 진리 안에 있게 하려고 한시도 그들에게 굴복하지 않았습니다.

6 지도자들이라는 사람들은 나에게 아무것도 새로운 것을 제시해 주지 못했습니다. 그들이 어떤 사람이건간에 나와는 상관이 없습니다. 하나님은 사람의 겉모양을 보시지 않기 때문입니다.

7 그들은 베드로가 유대인들에게 기쁜 소식을 전하는 일을 맡은 것같이 내가 이방인들에게 기쁜 소식을 전하는 일을 맡은 것을 보았습니다.

8 베드로에게 능력을 주어 그를 유대인의 사도로 삼으신 하나님이 나에게 능력을 주어 나를 이방인의 사도로 삼으신 것입니다.

9 그리고 기둥 같은 지도자로 알려진 야고보와 베드로와 요한도 하나님이 나에게 주신 은혜를 인정하고 나와 바나바에게 교제의 악수를 청해 왔습니다. 그래서 우리는 이방인들에게 가서 기쁜 소식을 전하고 그들은 유대인들에게 가서 기쁜 소식을 전하기로 했습니다.

10 또 그들은 우리에게 가난한 사람들을 돌보라고 부탁했는데 그 일은 내가 전부터 열심히 해 오던 일이었습니다.

11 그런데 베드로가 안디옥에 왔을 때 그가 잘못한 일이 있었으므로 나는 여러 사람 앞에서 그를 책망하였습니다.

12 그것은 그가 이방인과 함께 음식을 먹다가 야고보가 보낸 유대인 몇 사람이 들어오는 것을 보고 겁이 나서 나가 버린 일이었습니다.

13 그러자 다른 유대인들도 안 먹은 체하며 밖으로 나갔고 바나바까지도 그들의 위선에 유혹을 받았습니다.

14 그래서 나는 그들이 기쁜 소식의 진리대로 바로 살지 않는 것을 보고 모든 사람 앞에서 베드로에게 “유대인인 당신이 이방인처럼 살면서 어떻게 이방인에게는 유대인답게 살라고 할 수 있습니까?” 하고 책망했습니다.

오직 믿음으로만 구원을 얻는다

15 우리는 날 때부터 유대인이지 소위 말하는 ‘이방 죄인’이 아닙니다.

16 그러나 우리는 사람이 율법을 지켜서 의롭게 되는 것이 아니라 예수 그리스도를 믿음으로 의롭게 된다는 것을 알기 때문에 우리도 그렇게 되려고 예수 그리스도를 믿고 있습니다. 그 누구도 율법을 지켜서 의롭게 될 사람은 없습니다.

17 만일 우리가 그리스도 안에서 의롭게 되려고 하다가 우리 자신이 죄인으로 판명되면 그리스도께서 죄를 짓게 하시는 분이라고 할 수 있습니까? 절대로 그럴 수 없습니다.

18 내가 이미 헐어 버렸던 율법의 체계를 다시 세운다면 나는 율법을 범하는 사람이 되고 맙니다.

19 나는 율법에 관한 한 율법 그 자체에 의해서 죽었습니다. 이것은 하나님을 위해 살기 위해서입니다.

20 내가 그리스도와 함께 십자가에 못박혀 죽었으므로 이제는 내가 사는 것이 아니라 내 속에 그리스도께서 사시는 것입니다. 지금 나는 나를 사랑하시고 나를 위해 죽으신 하나님의 아들을 믿는 믿음으로 살고 있습니다.

21 나에게는 2하나님의 은혜가 참으로 귀중합니다. 만일 율법을 지켜서 의롭게 된다면 그리스도께서 헛되이 죽으신 것이 되기 때문입니다.