Galatians 2:14
Good News Translation
When I saw that they were not walking a straight path in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you have been living like a Gentile, not like a Jew. How, then, can you try to force Gentiles to live like Jews?"

New Revised Standard Version
But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Contemporary English Version
But when I saw they were not really obeying the truth that is in the good news, I corrected Peter in front of everyone and said: Peter, you are a Jew, but you live like a Gentile. So how can you force Gentiles to live like Jews?

New American Bible
But when I saw that they were not on the right road in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of all, “If you, though a Jew, are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

walked.

Psalm 15:2 He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

Psalm 58:1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. [2] If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.

Psalm 84:11 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Proverbs 2:7 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.

Proverbs 10:9 He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten.

the truth.

Galatians 2:5 To whom we yielded not by subjection: no, not for an hour: that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

Romans 14:14 I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth. . . .

Hebrews 9:10 And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

I said.

Galatians 2:11 But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

Leviticus 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

Psalm 141:5 The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Proverbs 27:5,6 Open rebuke is better than hidden love. . . .

1 Timothy 5:20 Them that sin reprove before all that the rest also may have fear.

If thou.

Galatians 2:12,13 For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision. . . .

Acts 10:28 And he said to them: you know how abominable it is for a man that is a Jew to keep company or to come unto one of another nation: but God hath shewed to me, to call no man common or unclean.

Acts 11:3-18 Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat with them? . . .

why.

Galatians 2:3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Gentile, was compelled to be circumcised.

Galatians 6:12 For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ.

Acts 15:10,11,19-21,24,28,29 Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? . . .

Context
Paul Confronts Cephas
13And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented: so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation. 14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 15We by nature are Jews: and not of the Gentiles, sinners.…
Cross References
Proverbs 27:5
Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Acts 10:28
And he said to them: you know how abominable it is for a man that is a Jew to keep company or to come unto one of another nation: but God hath shewed to me, to call no man common or unclean.

Acts 15:1
And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That, except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved.

Acts 15:5
But there arose of the sect of the Pharisees some that believed, saying: They must be circumcised and be commanded to observe the law of Moses.

Galatians 1:6
I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.

Galatians 1:18
Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Peter: and I tarried with him fifteen days.

Galatians 2:5
To whom we yielded not by subjection: no, not for an hour: that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

Galatians 2:7
But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision.

Galatians 2:9
And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship: that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision:

Galatians 2:12
For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision.

Colossians 1:5
For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,

1 Timothy 5:20
Them that sin reprove before all that the rest also may have fear.

Hebrews 12:13
And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.

Galatians 2:13
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