Paul and the Jerusalem Apostles Confirm the Gospel
Galatians 2:1-10
1Then after fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.2I went up according to a revelation, and I laid before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, doing so privately before those who were of repute, lest I should be running or had run in vain.3Yet not even Titus, who was with me and was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.4This pressure arose because of the false brothers who had secretly slipped in to spy out the freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery.5We did not yield to them in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.6As for those who were reputed to be something, whatever they once were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality. For those of repute added nothing to me.7On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised,8for the one who worked through Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked through me for the Gentiles.9And when James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.10They asked only that we remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.