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Galatians 2:12

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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.

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Galatians 2:12 in other translations

For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision.

Galatians 2:12 · American Standard Version

Galatians 2:12 in context

  1. 10They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
  2. 11But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
  3. 12For 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.
  4. 13And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
  5. 14But 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?