¹Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me .

²I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach amongst the Gentiles , but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running , or had run , in vain .

³But not even Titus , who was with me , being a Greek , was compelled to be circumcised .

⁴This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in , who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus , that they might bring us into bondage ,

⁵to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection , not for an hour , that the truth of the Good News might continue with you .

⁶But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were , it makes no difference to me ; God doesn’t show partiality to man —they , I say , who were respected imparted nothing to me ,

⁷but to the contrary , when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised —

⁸for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles —

⁹and when they perceived the grace that was given to me , James and Cephas and John , those who were reputed to be pillars , gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship , that we should go to the Gentiles , and they to the circumcision .

¹⁰They only asked us to remember the poor —which very thing I was also zealous to do .

¹¹But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face , because he stood condemned .

¹²For before some people came from James , he ate with the Gentiles . But when they came , he drew back and separated himself , fearing those who were of the circumcision .

¹³And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy , so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy .

¹⁴But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News , I said to Peter before them all , “If you , being a Jew , live as the Gentiles do , and not as the Jews do , why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do ?

¹⁵“We , being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,

¹⁶yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ , even we believed in Christ Jesus , that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law , because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law .

¹⁷But if while we sought to be justified in Christ , we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not !

¹⁸For if I build up again those things which I destroyed , I prove myself a law-breaker.

¹⁹For I through the law died to the law , that I might live to God .

²⁰I have been crucified with Christ , and it is no longer I who live , but Christ lives in me . That life which I now live in the flesh , I live by faith in the Son of God , who loved me and gave himself up for me .

²¹I don’t reject the grace of God . For if righteousness is through the law , then Christ died for nothing !”