Galatians 2:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Walked

Proverbs 10:9

The truth

I said

1 Timothy 5:20

If thou

Galatians 2:12

Acts 10:28

Acts 11:3

Why

Galatians 2:3

Galatians 6:12

Acts 15:10

General references

Bible References

Walked

He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness,
And speaks truth in his heart.

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David.
Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods?
Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord gives grace and glory;

No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

He who walks in integrity walks securely,
But he who perverts his ways will be found out.

The truth

But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

I said

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

‘You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him.

Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me;
It is oil upon the head;
Do not let my head refuse it,

For still my prayer is against their wicked deeds.

Better is open rebuke
Than love that is concealed.

Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.

If thou

For prior to the coming of certain men from

James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision.

And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

Why

But not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

General references

Better is open rebuke
Than love that is concealed.

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.

For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.