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Not a Gospel in Vain (Gal 2:1-2)

Read Galatians 2:1-2 (NKJV):

Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me. And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain.

Paul now returns to the main issue at hand – that of the Galatians being capitivated and lead astray by a false, legalistic gospel of man-centred works. As we have seen in other posts from earlier passages in Galatians (here), the church was being stricken by false teaching which suggested it was not just faith that saved but you also had to do things too. In this situation, the main issue seemed to be that they had started believing that they needed to be circumcised too.

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