Galatians 2:5-14

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.

10The only thing they asked us to do was to remember the poor, the very thing which I was eager to do.

11When Cephas came to Antioch, I had to openly oppose him because he was completely wrong.

12He ate with people who were not Jewish until some men James had sent ⌞from Jerusalem⌟ arrived. Then Cephas drew back and would not associate with people who were not Jewish. He was afraid of those who insisted that circumcision was necessary.

13The other Jewish Christians also joined him in this hypocrisy. Even Barnabas was swept along with them.

14But I saw that they were not properly following the truth of the Good News. So I told Cephas in front of everyone, “You’re Jewish, but you live like a person who is not Jewish. So how can you insist that people who are not Jewish must live like Jews?”