8. The one who empowered Peter to become an apostle to the circumcised empowered me also to be one to the Gentiles.
9. James, Cephas, and John, who are considered to be key leaders, shook hands with me and Barnabas as equals when they recognized the grace that was given to me. So it was agreed that we would go to the Gentiles, while they continue to go to the people who were circumcised.
10. They asked only that we would remember the poor, which was certainly something I was willing to do.
11. But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was wrong.
12. He had been eating with the Gentiles before certain people came from James. But when they came, he began to back out and separate himself, because he was afraid of the people who promoted circumcision.