Galatians 2 (NMV)
1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.
2 I went because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles [non-Jews]. I did so privately to those who seemed to be influential, to make sure I was not running, or had not run, in vain.
3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
4 This matter came up because of false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, to enslave us,
5 but we did not yield to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
6 Now from those who were considered important, what they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism, those influential people added nothing to my message.
7 On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised,
8 for the one who worked through Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised also worked through me for the Gentiles [non-Jews].
9 When James, Peter, and John, those recognized as pillars, perceived the grace given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, so that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
10 They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.
12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who belonged to the circumcision group.
13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of everyone, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?"
15 We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles,
16 know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also 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 one will be justified.
17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found to be sinners, does that make Christ a servant of sin? Absolutely not!
18 For if I rebuild the things I tore down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.
19 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.
20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by confident expectation 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.