Paul Accepted by the Other Apostles

2 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also. 2 I went up in response to a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were held in high esteem, to make sure that I was not running or had not run in vain. 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he is a Greek. 4 Now this matter arose because of the false brothers who were secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us. 5 But we did not yield to them in submission for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. 6 Now from those who were esteemed to be something (what sort of men they once were makes no difference to me; God does not show partiality)—those, I say, who were held in high esteem added nothing to me. 7 On the contrary, 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. 8 For he who worked through Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised also worked through me in my apostleship to the Gentiles. 9 When James, Cephas, and John, who were esteemed as pillars of the church, recognized the grace given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and that they should go to the circumcised. 10 They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.