2:11 But when Cephas ¹  came to Antioch, ²  I opposed him to his face, because he had clearly done wrong. ³  2:12 Until ⁴  certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this ⁵  and separated himself ⁶  because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision. ⁷  2:13 And the rest of the Jews also joined with him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray with them ⁸  by their hypocrisy. 2:14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas ⁹  in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force ¹⁰  the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

2:15 We are Jews by birth ¹¹  and not Gentile sinners, ¹²  2:16 yet we know ¹³  that no one ¹⁴  is justified by the works of the law ¹⁵  but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. ¹⁶  And ¹⁷  we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ ¹⁸  and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one ¹⁹  will be justified. 2:17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages ²⁰  sin? Absolutely not! 2:18 But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, ²¹  I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law. ²²  2:19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God. 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, ²³  and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So ²⁴  the life I now live in the body, ²⁵  I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, ²⁶  who loved me and gave himself for me. 2:21 I do not set aside ²⁷  God’s grace, because if righteousness ²⁸  could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing! ²⁹ 

3:9 But the Lord God called to ¹  the man and said to him, “Where are you?” ²  3:10 The man replied, ³  “I heard you moving about ⁴  in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” 3:11 And the Lord God ⁵  said, “Who told you that you were naked? ⁶  Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” ⁷  3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave ⁸  me some fruit ⁹  from the tree and I ate it.” 3:13 So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this ¹⁰  you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent ¹¹  tricked ¹²  me, and I ate.”

3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent, ¹³ 

“Because you have done this,

cursed ¹⁴  are you above all the wild beasts

and all the living creatures of the field!

On your belly you will crawl ¹⁵ 

and dust you will eat ¹⁶  all the days of your life.

3:15 And I will put hostility ¹⁷  between you and the woman

and between your offspring and her offspring; ¹⁸ 

her offspring will attack ¹⁹  your head,

and ²⁰  you ²¹  will attack her offspring’s heel.” ²² 

3:16 To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase ²³  your labor pains; ²⁴ 

with pain you will give birth to children.

You will want to control your husband, ²⁵ 

but he will dominate ²⁶  you.”

3:17 But to Adam ²⁷  he said,

“Because you obeyed ²⁸  your wife

and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,

‘You must not eat from it,’

cursed is the ground ²⁹  thanks to you; ³⁰ 

in painful toil you will eat ³¹  of it all the days of your life.

3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

but you will eat the grain ³²  of the field.

3:19 By the sweat of your brow ³³  you will eat food

until you return to the ground, ³⁴ 

for out of it you were taken;

for you are dust, and to dust you will return.” ³⁵ 

3:20 The man ³⁶  named his wife Eve, ³⁷  because ³⁸  she was the mother of all the living. ³⁹  3:21 The Lord God made garments from skin ⁴⁰  for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. 3:22 And the Lord God said, “Now ⁴¹  that the man has become like one of us, ⁴²  knowing ⁴³  good and evil, he must not be allowed ⁴⁴  to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”