3. However, not even Titus, who was with me and who was a Greek, was required to be circumcised.
4. But false brothers and sisters, who were brought in secretly, slipped in to spy on our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, and to make us slaves.
5. We didn’t give in and submit to them for a single moment, so that the truth of the gospel would continue to be with you.
6. The influential leaders didn’t add anything to what I was preaching—and whatever they were makes no difference to me, because God doesn’t show favoritism.
7. But on the contrary, they saw that I had been given the responsibility to preach the gospel to the people who aren’t circumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised.
8. The one who empowered Peter to become an apostle to the circumcised empowered me also to be one to the Gentiles.
9. James, Cephas, and John, who are considered to be key leaders, shook hands with me and Barnabas as equals when they recognized the grace that was given to me. So it was agreed that we would go to the Gentiles, while they continue to go to the people who were circumcised.
10. They asked only that we would remember the poor, which was certainly something I was willing to do.
11. But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was wrong.
12. He had been eating with the Gentiles before certain people came from James. But when they came, he began to back out and separate himself, because he was afraid of the people who promoted circumcision.
13. And the rest of the Jews also joined him in this hypocrisy so that even Barnabas got carried away with them in their hypocrisy.