How Paul Was Accepted by the Apostles in Jerusalem

2 Then fourteen years later, I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me. ² I went in response to a revelation, and in a private meeting with the reputed leaders, I explained to them the gospel that I’m proclaiming to the gentiles. I did this because I was afraid that^[a] I was running or had run my life’s race^[b] for nothing. ³ But not even Titus, who was with me, was forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. ⁴ However, false brothers were secretly brought in. They slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in the Messiah^[c] Jesus so that they might enslave us. ⁵ But we did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.

⁶ Now those who were reputed to be important added nothing to my message.^[d] (What sort of people they were makes no difference to me, since God pays no attention to outward appearances.) ⁷ In fact, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised. ⁸ For the one who worked through Peter by making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me by sending me to the gentiles. ⁹ So when James, Cephas,^[e] and John (who were reputed to be leaders)^[f] recognized the grace that had been given me, they gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰ The only thing they asked us to do was to remember the destitute, the very thing I was eager to do.