1. Next, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, taking with me Barnabas and Titus.
2. And I went up according to revelation, and I debated with them about the Gospel that I am preaching among the Gentiles, but away from those who were pretending to be something, lest perhaps I might run, or have run, in vain.
3. But even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Gentile, was not compelled to be circumcised,
4. but only because of false brothers, who were brought in unknowingly. They entered secretly to spy on our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might reduce us to servitude.
5. We did not yield to them in subjection, even for an hour, in order that the truth of the Gospel would remain with you,
6. and away from those who were pretending to be something. (Whatever they might have been once, it means nothing to me. God does not accept the reputation of a man.) And those who were claiming to be something had nothing to offer me.
7. But it was to the contrary, since they had seen that the Gospel to the uncircumcised was entrusted to me, just as the Gospel to the circumcised was entrusted to Peter.
8. For he who was working the Apostleship to the circumcised in Peter, was also working in me among the Gentiles.
9. And so, when they had acknowledged the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed like pillars, gave to me and to Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we would go to the Gentiles, while they went to the circumcised,
10. asking only that we should be mindful of the poor, which was the very thing that I also was solicitous to do.