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),
9. and when James and Cephas and John—those thought to be pillars—acknowledged the grace given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, in order that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision.
10. They asked only that we should remember the poor, the very thing I was also eager to do.
11. But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was condemned.
12. For before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he was afraid of those who were of the circumcision,
13. and the rest of the Jews also joined in this hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with them in their hypocrisy.
14. But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”