Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians

2:1-13

2:1 Then after fourteen years
I went up again to Jerusalem
with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
2:2 I went up in response to a revelation.

Then I laid before them
(though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders)
the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles,
in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain.

2:3 But even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.

2:4 But because of false believers secretly brought in,
who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus,
so that they might enslave us--
2:5 we did not submit to them even for a moment,
so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.

2:6 And from those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders
(what they actually were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)
--those leaders contributed nothing to me.

2:7 On the contrary,
when they saw that I had been entrusted
with the gospel for the uncircumcised,
just as Peter had been entrusted
with the gospel for the circumcised
2:8 (for he who worked through Peter
making him an apostle to the circumcised
also worked through me in sending me to the Gentiles),
2:9 and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars,
recognized the grace that had been given to me,
they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship,
agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
2:10 They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do.

2:11 But when Cephas came to Antioch,
I opposed him to his face, because he stood self-condemned;
2:12 for until certain people came from James,
he used to eat with the Gentiles.
But after they came, he drew back
and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction.
2:13 And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy,
so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.