What Is the Grace of Christ?

Can We Earn It or Learn It?

(Galatians 2, verses 11–21)

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Today we will be finishing up the second half of chapter two of the Book of Galatians. As we open our study, we find the apostle Paul continuing his letter to the church at Galatia. As we begin at verse 11, we find Paul moving on to another related subject as he continues writing.

Part One of This Week’s Bible Verses for Study and Memorization

“When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. 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 from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray. When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, ‘You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a…