1. After 14 years, I went to Jerusalem again, this time with Barnabas. I also took Titus with me.
2. I went because God showed me that I should go. I met with those men who were the leaders of the believers. When we were alone, I told them the Good News that I preach to the non-Jewish people. I did not want my past work and the work I am now doing to be wasted.
3. Titus was with me. But Titus was not forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
4. We talked about this problem because some false brothers had come into our group secretly. They came in like spies to find out about the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. They wanted to make us slaves.
5. But we did not agree with anything those false brothers wanted! We wanted the truth of the Good News to continue for you.
6. Those men who seemed to be important did not change the Good News that I preach. (It doesn’t matter to me if they were “important” or not. To God all men are the same.)
7. But these leaders saw that God had given me special work, just as he had to Peter. God gave Peter the work of telling the Good News to the Jews. But God gave me the work of telling the Good News to the non-Jewish people.