Galatians 2:1-14

Galatians 2:1–14

1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas,taking Titus along with me. 2 I went up because of a revelation and setbefore them (though privately before those lwho seemed influential) thegospel that mI proclaim among the Gentiles, nin order to make sure I wasnot running or had not orun in vain. 3 But even Titus, who was with me,pwas not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. 4 qYet because offalse brothers secretly brought in—who rslipped in to spy out sour freedomthat we have in Christ Jesus, tso that they might bring us into slavery— 5 tothem we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that uthe truthof the gospel might be preserved for you. 6 And from those vwho seemed tobe influential (what they were makes no difference to me; wGod shows nopartiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential xadded nothing to me. 7 Onthe contrary, when they saw that I had been yentrusted with zthe gospel tothe uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to thecircumcised 8 (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministryto the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles), 9 andwhen James and Cephas and John, vwho seemed to be apillars, perceivedthe bgrace that was given to me, they cgave the right hand of fellowship toBarnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to thecircumcised. 10 Only, they asked us to remember the poor, dthe very thing Iwas eager to do.

11 But ewhen Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him fto his face, becausehe stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, ghe waseating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separatedhimself, fearing hthe circumcision party.1 13 And the rest of the Jews actedhypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by theirhypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that their iconduct was not in step with jthetruth of the gospel, I said to Cephas kbefore them all, “If you, though a Jew,llive like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to livelike Jews?”