Paul Accepted by the Apostles

2 Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem,^(A) this time with Barnabas.^(B) I took Titus^(C) along also. ² I went in response to a revelation^(D) and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles.^(E) I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race^(F) in vain.

⁷ On the contrary, they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task^(A) of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised,^[a](B) just as Peter^(C) had been to the circumcised.^{[b] 8} For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle^(D) to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle^(E) to the Gentiles. ⁹ James,^(F) Cephas^[c](G) and John, those esteemed as pillars,^(H) gave me and Barnabas^(I) the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me.^(J) They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles,^(K) and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰ All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor,^(L) the very thing I had been eager to do all along.

Paul Opposes Cephas

¹¹ When Cephas^(M) came to Antioch,^(N) I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. ¹² For before certain men came from James,^(O) he used to eat with the Gentiles.^(P) But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.^{(Q) 13} The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas^(R) was led astray.

¹⁴ When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel,^(S) I said to Cephas^(T) in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew.^(U) How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?^(V)