5. But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
6. But from those who were influential (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people) – those influential leaders added nothing to my message.
7. On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was to the circumcised
8. (for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)
9. and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
10. They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.
11. But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he had clearly done wrong.
12. Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.
13. And the rest of the Jews also joined with him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray with them by their hypocrisy.
14. But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”