1. चौदह वर्ष के बाद मैं बरनबास के साथ यरूशलेम को गया और तितुस को भी साथ ले गया।

1. THEN AFTER [an interval] of fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem. [This time I went] with Barnabas, taking Titus along with [me] also.

2. और मेरा जाना ईश्वरीय प्रकाश के अनुसार हुआ: और जो सुसमाचार मैं अन्यजातियों में प्रचार करता हूं, उस को मैं ने उन्हें बता दिया, पर एकान्त में उन्हीं को जो बड़े समझे जाते थे, ताकि ऐसा न हो, कि मेरी इस समय की, या अगली दौड़ धूप व्यर्थ ठहरे।

2. I went because it was specially and divinely revealed to me that I should go, and I put before them the Gospel [declaring to them that] which I preach among the Gentiles. However, [I presented the matter] privately before those of repute, [for I wanted to make certain, by thus at first confining my communication to this private conference] that I was not running or had not run in vain [guarding against being discredited either in what I was planning to do or had already done].

3. परन्तु तितुस भी जो मेरे साथ था और जो यूनानी है; खतना कराने के लिये विवश नहीं किया गया।

3. But [all went well!] even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled [as some had anticipated] to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

4. और यह उन झूठे भाइयों के कारण हुआ, जो चोरी से घुस आए थे, कि उस स्वतंत्राता का जो मसीह यीशु में हमें मिली है, भेद लेकर हमें दास बनाएं।

4. [My precaution was] because of false brethren who had been secretly smuggled in [to the Christian brotherhood]; they had slipped in to spy on our liberty and the freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might again bring us into bondage [under the Law of Moses].

5. उन के आधीन होना हम ने एक घड़ी भर न माना, इसलिये कि सुसमाचार की सच्चाई तुम में बनी रहे।

5. To them we did not yield submission even for a moment, that the truth of the Gospel might continue to be [preserved] for you [in its purity].

6. फिर जो लोग कुछ समझे जाते थे (वे चाहे कैसे ही थे, मुझे इस से कुछ काम नहीं, परमेश्वर किसी का पक्षपात नहीं करता) उन से जो कुछ भी समझे जाते थे, मुझे कुछ भी नहीं प्राप्त हुआ।
व्यवस्थाविवरण 10:17

6. Moreover, [no new requirements were made] by those who were reputed to be something--though what was their individual position and whether they really were of importance or not makes no difference to me; God is not impressed with the positions that men hold and He is not partial and recognizes no external distinctions--those [I say] who were of repute imposed no new requirements upon me [had nothing to add to my Gospel, and from them I received no new suggestions]. [Deut. 10:17.]

7. परन्तु इसके विपरीत जब उन्हों ने देखा, कि जैसा खतना किए हुए लोगों के लिये सुसमाचार का काम पतरस को सौंपा गया वैसा ही खतनारहितों के लिये मुझे सुसमाचार सुनाना सौंपा गया।

7. But on the contrary, when they [really] saw that I had been entrusted [to carry] the Gospel to the uncircumcised [Gentiles, just as definitely] as Peter had been entrusted [to proclaim] the Gospel to the circumcised [Jews, they were agreeable];

8. (क्योंकि जिस ने पतरस से खतना किए हुओं में प्रेरिताई का कारर्य बड़े प्रभाव सहित करवाया, उसी ने मुझ से भी अन्यजातियों में प्रभावशाली कारर्य करवाया)

8. For He Who motivated and fitted Peter and worked effectively through him for the mission to the circumcised, motivated and fitted me and worked through me also for [the mission to] the Gentiles.

9. और जब उन्हों ने उस अनुग्रह को जो मुझे मिला था जान लिया, तो याकूब, और कैफा, और यूहन्ना ने जो कलीसिया के खम्भे समझे जाते थे, मुझ को और बरनबास को दहिना हाथ देकर संग कर लिया, कि हम अन्यजातियों के पास जाएं, और वे खतना किए हुओं के पास।

9. And when they knew (perceived, recognized, understood, and acknowledged) the grace (God's unmerited favor and spiritual blessing) that had been bestowed upon me, James and Cephas (Peter) and John, who were reputed to be pillars of the Jerusalem church, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, with the understanding that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised (Jews).

10. केवल यह कहा, कि हम कंगालों की सुधि लें, और इसी काम के करने का मैं आप भी यत्न कर रहा था।

10. They only [made one stipulation], that we were to remember the poor, which very thing I was also eager to do.

11. पर जब कैफा अन्ताकिया में आया तो मैं ने उसके मुंह पर उसका साम्हना किया, क्योंकि वह दोषी ठहरा था।

11. But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I protested and opposed him to his face [concerning his conduct there], for he was blameable and stood condemned.

12. इसलिये कि याकूब की ओर से कितने लोगों के आने से पहिले वह अन्यजातियों के साथ खाया करता था, परन्तु जब वे आए, तो खतना किए हुए लोगों के डर के मारे उन से हट गया और किनारा करने लगा।

12. For up to the time that certain persons came from James, he ate his meals with the Gentile [converts]; but when the men [from Jerusalem] arrived, he withdrew and held himself aloof from the Gentiles and [ate] separately for fear of those of the circumcision [party].

13. और उसके साथ शेष यहूदियों ने भी कपट किया, यहां तक कि बरनबास भी उन के कपट में पड़ गया।

13. And the rest of the Jews along with him also concealed their true convictions and acted insincerely, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy (their example of insincerity and pretense).

14. पर जब मैं ने देखा, कि वे सुसमाचार की सच्चाई पर सीधी चाल नहीं चलते, तो मैं ने सब के साम्हने कैफा से कहा; कि जब तू यहूदी होकर अन्यजातियों की नाई चलता है, और यहूदियों की नाईं नहीं तो तू अन्यजातियों को यहूदियों की नाईं चलने को क्यों कहता है?

14. But as soon as I saw that they were not straightforward and were not living up to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas (Peter) before everybody present, If you, though born a Jew, can live [as you have been living] like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how do you dare now to urge and practically force the Gentiles to [comply with the ritual of Judaism and] live like Jews?

15. हम जो जन्म के यहूदी हैं, और पापी अन्यजातियों में से नहीं।

15. [I went on to say] Although we ourselves (you and I) are Jews by birth and not Gentile (heathen) sinners,

16. तौभी यह जानकर कि मनुष्य व्यवस्था के कामों से नहीं, पर केवल यीशु मसीह पर विश्वास करने के द्वारा धर्मी ठहरता है, हम ने आप भी मसीह यीशु पर विश्वास किया, कि हम व्यवस्था के कामों से नहीं पर मसीह पर विश्वास करने से धर्मी ठहरें; इसलिये कि व्यवस्था के कामों से कोई प्राणी धर्मी न ठहरेगा।
भजन संहिता 143:2

16. Yet we know that a man is justified or reckoned righteous and in right standing with God not by works of the Law, but [only] through faith and [absolute] reliance on and adherence to and trust in Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). [Therefore] even we [ourselves] have believed on Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law [for we cannot be justified by any observance of the ritual of the Law given by Moses], because by keeping legal rituals and by works no human being can ever be justified (declared righteous and put in right standing with God). [Ps. 143:2.]

17. हम जो मसीह में धर्मी ठहरना चाहते हैं, यदि आप ही पापी निकलें, तो क्या मसीह पाप का सेवक है? कदापि नहीं।

17. But if, in our desire and endeavor to be justified in Christ [to be declared righteous and put in right standing with God wholly and solely through Christ], we have shown ourselves sinners also and convicted of sin, does that make Christ a minister (a party and contributor) to our sin? Banish the thought! [Of course not!]

18. क्योंकि जो कुछ मैं ने गिरा दिया, यदि उसी को फिर बनाता हूं, तो अपने आप को अपराधी ठहराता हूं।

18. For if I [or any others who have taught that the observance of the Law of Moses is not essential to being justified by God should now by word or practice teach or intimate that it is essential to] build up again what I tore down, I prove myself a transgressor.

19. मैं जो व्यवसिाा के द्वारा व्यवस्था के लिये मर गया, कि परमेश्वर के लिये जीऊं।

19. For I through the Law [under the operation of the curse of the Law] have [in Christ's death for me] myself died to the Law and all the Law's demands upon me, so that I may [henceforth] live to and for God.

20. मैं मसीह के साथ क्रूस पर चढ़ाया गया हूं, और अब मैं जीवित न रहा, पर मसीह मुझ में जीवित है: और मैं शरीर में अब जो जीवित हूं तो केवल उस विश्वास से जीवित हूं, जो परमेश्वर के पुत्रा पर है, जिस ने मुझ से प्रेम किया, और मेरे लिये अपने आप को दे दिया।

20. I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

21. मैं परमेश्वर के अनुग्रह को व्यर्थ नहीं ठहराता, क्योंकि यदि व्यवस्था के द्वारा धार्मिकता होती, तो मसीह का मरना व्यर्थ होता।।

21. [Therefore, I do not treat God's gracious gift as something of minor importance and defeat its very purpose]; I do not set aside and invalidate and frustrate and nullify the grace (unmerited favor) of God. For if justification (righteousness, acquittal from guilt) comes through [observing the ritual of] the Law, then Christ (the Messiah) died groundlessly and to no purpose and in vain. [His death was then wholly superfluous.]