Galatians 2:1-10 - Paul's Ministry Recognized By The Jerusalem Apostles

¹ Then, fourteen years later, I again went up to Jerusalem, with Barnabas, and took Titus with me too. ² I went up under the guidance of a divine revelation. Now I laid before them the good news that I was in the habit of preaching among the heathen, but first I did so privately before the leaders, for fear that my course might be or might have been to no purpose. ³ But they did not even try to compel my companion, Titus, although he was a Greek, to be circumcised -- ⁴ they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again. ⁵ But we did not for a moment yield them submission, in order that the truth of the good news might prevail for you.

⁶ Those who were looked upon as leaders -- what they were makes no difference to me -- God pays no attention to outward appearances these leaders added nothing new to me. ⁷ On the contrary, because they saw that I had been entrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been entrusted with it for the Jews -- ⁸ for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship to the heathen -- ⁹ and because they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, the so-called pillar apostles, gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, with the understanding that we should go to the heathen and they to the Jews. ¹⁰ Only they wanted us to remember the poor; the very thing that I was eager to do.