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Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
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I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those 1who seemed influential) the gospel that 2I proclaim among the Gentiles, 3in order to make sure I was not running or had not 4run in vain.
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But even Titus, who was with me, 5was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.
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6Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who 7slipped in to spy out 8our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, 9so that they might bring us into slavery—
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to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that 10the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
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And from those 11who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; 12God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential 13added nothing to me.
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On the contrary, when they saw that I had been 14entrusted with 15the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised
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(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),