Galatians 2:1–10

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

2Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem,^v this time with Barnabas.^w I took Titus^x along also. ²I went in response to a revelation^y and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles.^z I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race^a in vain. ³Yet not even Titus,^b who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.^{c 4}This matter arose because some false believers^d had infiltrated our ranks to spy on^e the freedom^f we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves. ⁵We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel^g might be preserved for you.

⁶As for those who were held in high esteem^h—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritismⁱ—they added nothing to my message.^{j 7}On the contrary, they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task^k of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised,^al just as Peter^m had been to the circumcised.^{b 8}For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostleⁿ to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle^o to the Gentiles. ⁹James,^p Cephas^cq and John, those esteemed as pillars,^r gave me and Barnabas^s the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me.^t They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles,^u and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor,^v the very thing I had been eager to do all along.