or should already have run, in vain.
002:003 But although my companion Titus was a Greek they did not insist
upon even his being circumcised.
002:004 Yet there was danger of this through the false brethren
secretly introduced into the Church, who had stolen in to spy
out the freedom which is ours in Christ Jesus, in order to rob
us of it.
002:005 But not for an hour did we give way and submit to them;
in order that the Good News might continue with you
in its integrity.
002:006 From those leaders I gained nothing new. Whether they
were men of importance or not, matters nothing to me--
God recognizes no external distinctions. To me, at any rate,
the leaders imparted nothing new.
002:007 Indeed, when they saw that I was entrusted with the preaching
of the Good News to the Gentiles as Peter had been with that
to the Jews--
002:008 for He who had been at work within Peter with a view to his
Apostleship to the Jews had also been at work within me
with a view to my Apostleship to the Gentiles--
002:009 and when they perceived the mission which was graciously
entrusted to me, they (that is to say, James, Peter, and John,
who were considered to be the pillars of the Church)
welcomed Barnabas and me to their fellowship on the understanding
that we were to go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.
002:010 Only they urged that we should remember their poor--a thing
which was uppermost in my own mind.
002:011 Now when Peter visited Antioch, I remonstrated with him to his face,
because he had incurred just censure.
002:012 For until certain persons came from James he had been accustomed