1 Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along as well. 2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them the gospel I proclaim among the Gentiles, privately before those held in esteem, to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain. 3 But even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. 4 This arose because of false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us. 5 We did not yield in submission to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you. 6 As for those held to be something—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality—those held in esteem added nothing to me. 7 On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been for the circumcised, 8 for the one who worked through Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised also worked through me for the Gentiles. 9 When James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars, recognized the grace given to me, they gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, so that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 They asked only that we remember the poor, the very thing I was also eager to do. 11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before some men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they came, he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision. 13 The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not walking straight according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? 15 We are Jews by birth and not sinners from among the Gentiles; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We too have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no flesh will be justified. 17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were also found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! 18 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I show myself to be a transgressor. 19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; 20 it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.”