Galatians 2:1-10

New Catholic Bible

Chapter 2

The Council of Jerusalem^[a]

Confirmation of Paul’s Gospel and Mission. ¹ Fourteen years later, I traveled up to Jerusalem again, this time with Barnabas, and I also took along Titus. ² I went up in response to a revelation, and I set before them the gospel that I preach to the Gentiles—in a private meeting with the leaders—to ensure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain.

³ Yet not even Titus, who was accompanying me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. ⁴ Yet some false brethren were secretly brought in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might reduce us to slavery. ⁵ But not for a single moment did we submit to them, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain untouched for you.

⁶ As for those who were regarded as men of importance—whether or not they actually were important makes no difference to me, nor does it matter to God—these men did not add anything further to my message. ⁷ On the contrary, they realized that I had been entrusted with preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with preaching the gospel to the circumcised ( ⁸ for the one who worked through Peter in his mission to the Jews was also at work in me in my mission to the Gentiles).

⁹ Therefore, when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged as pillars of the community, recognized the grace that had been bestowed upon me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles while they concentrated on the Jews. ¹⁰ They asked only one thing: that we remember the poor, which is the very thing I was eager to do.