Galatians 2:1-13 ▼

1 Then after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having also taken Titus with me;

2 and I went up by revelation, and submitted the good news to them that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest I ran or might run in vain;

3 but not even Titus, who [is] with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised—

4 and [that] because of the false brothers brought in unaware, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us under bondage,

5 to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.

6 And from those who were esteemed to be something—whatever they were then, it makes no difference to me. God does not accept the face of man, for to me those esteemed added nothing,

7 but on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with [that] of the circumcision,

8 for He who worked with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, worked also in me in regard to the nations,

9 and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, they gave to me a right hand of fellowship, and to Barnabas, that we may go to the nations, and they to the circumcision,

10 only, that we should be mindful of the poor, which I also was diligent—this very thing—to do.

11 And when Peter came to Antioch, I stood up against him to the face, because he was blameworthy,

12 for before the coming of some from James, he was eating with the nations, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of circumcision,

13 and the other Jews acted hypocritically with him, so that Barnabas was also carried away by their hypocrisy.