Galatians 2:1–10

PAUL DEFENDS HIS GOSPEL AT JERUSALEM

2Then after fourteen years I went up again^ah to Jerusalem with Barnabas,^ai taking Titus^aj along also. ²I went up according to a revelation^ak and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those recognized as leaders. I wanted to be sure I was not running, and had not been running, in vain. ³But not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. ⁴This matter arose because some false brothers^al had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus in order to enslave us. ⁵But we did not give up and submit to these people for even a moment, so that the truth^am of the gospel would be preserved for you.

⁶Now from those recognized as important (what they^B once were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism^Can)—they added nothing to me. ⁷On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised,^ao just as Peter^ap was for the circumcised, ⁸since the one at work in Peter for an apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in me for the Gentiles. ⁹When James,^a Cephas,^Db and John^c—those recognized as pillars^d—acknowledged the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰They asked only that we would remember the poor,^e which I had made every effort to do.