Galatians 2:3-9

3Titus was with me, and although he is Greek, no one forced him to be circumcised.

4False Christians were brought in. They slipped in as spies to learn about the freedom Christ Jesus gives us. They hoped to find a way to control us.

5But we did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the Good News would always be yours.

6Those who were recognized as important people didn’t add a single thing to my message. (What sort of people they were makes no difference to me, since God doesn’t play favorites.)

7In fact, they saw that I had been entrusted with telling the Good News to people who are not circumcised as Peter had been entrusted to tell it to those who are circumcised.

8The one who made Peter an apostle to Jewish people also made me an apostle to people who are not Jewish.

9James, Cephas, and John (who were recognized as the most important people) acknowledged that God had given me this special gift. So they shook hands with Barnabas and me, agreeing to be our partners. It was understood that we would work among the people who are not Jewish and they would work among Jewish people.