The Council at Jerusalem (Acts 15:5–21)
2 TNT Ye and I went vp by revelacion and comened with them of the Gospell which I preache amonge the gentyls: but apart with them which were counted chefe lest it shuld have bene thought that I shuld runne or had runne in vayne. BSB BSB: 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.
3 TNT Also Titus which was with me though he were a Greke yet was not compelled to be circumcised BSB BSB: Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
4 TNT and that because of incommers beynge falce brethren which came in amonge other to spye out oure libertie which we have in Christ Iesus that they might bringe vs into bondage. BSB BSB: 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.
5 TNT To whom we gave no roume no not for the space of an houre as concerninge to be brought into subieccion: and that because that the trueth of the gospell myght continue with you. BSB BSB: We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
6 TNT Of the which seme to be great (what they were in tyme passed it maketh no matter to me: God loketh on no mans person) neverthelesse they which seme great added nothynge to me. BSB BSB: 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.
7 TNT But contrary wyse when they sawe that the gospell over the vncircumcision was committed vnto me as the gospell over the circucision was vnto Peter: BSB BSB: 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.
8 TNT for he that was myghty in Peter in the Apostleshippe over the circumcision the same was myghty in me amonge the gentyls: BSB BSB: For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.
10 TNT warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore. Which thinge also I was diligent to do. BSB BSB: They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Paul Confronts Cephas 11 TNT And when Peter was come to Antioche I withstode him in the face for he was worthy to be blamed. BSB BSB: When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12 TNT For yerr that certayne came from Iames he ate with the gentyls. But when they were come he withdrue and separated him selfe fearinge them which were of the circumcision. BSB BSB: 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.
13 TNT And the other Iewes dissembled lyke wyse in so moche that Barnabas was brought into their simulacion also. BSB BSB: The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
14 TNT But when I sawe that they went not the ryght waye after the trueth of the gospell I sayde vnto Peter before all men yf thou beynge a Iewe livest after the maner of the gentyls and not as do the Iewes: why causest thou the getyls to live as do the Iewes? BSB BSB: 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?”
15 TNT We which are Iewes by nature and not synners of the gentyls, BSB BSB: We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
16 TNT knowe that a man is not iustified by the dedes of the lowe: but by the fayth of Iesus Christ. And therfore we have beleved on Iesus Christ that we myght be iustified by the fayth of Christ and uot by the dedes of the lawe: because that by the dedes of the lawe no flesshe shalbe iustified. BSB BSB: 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.
17 TNT Yf then whill we seke to be made rightewes by Christ we oure selves are founde synners is not then Christ the minister of synne? God forbyd. BSB BSB: 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!
18 TNT For yf I bylde agayne that which I destroyed. then make I my selfe a treaspaser. BSB BSB: If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.
19 TNT But I thorow the lawe amen deed to the lawe: that I myght live vnto God. BSB BSB: For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
20 TNT I am crucified with Christ. I live verely: yet now not I but Christ liveth in me. For the lyfe which I now live in the flesshe I live by the fayth of the sonne of God which loved me and gave him selne for me. BSB BSB: 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.
21 TNT I despyse not the grace of God. For if rightewesnes come of the lawe then Christ dyed in vayne. BSB BSB: I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
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