¹² What I am saying is this: One of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,”^(A) or “I belong to Cephas,”^(B) or “I belong to Christ.”^(C)

²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas^(A) or the world or life^(B) or death^(C) or things present or things to come^(D)—everything is yours,

⁵ Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife^[a] like the other apostles,^(A) the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?^(B)

⁵ and that he appeared to Cephas,^(A) then to the Twelve.^(B)

¹⁸ Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem^(A) to get to know Cephas,^[a](B) and I stayed with him fifteen days.

⁹ When James,^(A) Cephas,^[a](B) and John^(C)—those recognized as pillars^(D)—acknowledged the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Freedom from the Law

¹¹ But when Cephas^[a] came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned.^[b]

¹⁴ But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas^[a] in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile^(A) and not like a Jew,^(B) how can you compel Gentiles to live^(C) like Jews?” ^[b]