1. Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking along Titus also.
2. Now I went up there because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.
3. But not even Titus who was with me, although he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
4. Now this was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us,
5. to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain continually with you.
6. But from those who were influential (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me, God does not show partiality)—for those who were influential added nothing to me.
7. But these, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcision, just as Peter to the circumcision
8. (for the one who was at work through Peter for his apostleship to the circumcision was at work also through me for the Gentiles),