The Scriptures 1998

Galatians 2:1-9 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

1. Then after fourteen years I again went up to Yerushalayim, with Barnaḇah, taking Titus along too.

2. And I went up by revelation, and laid before them that Good News which I proclaim among the gentiles, but separately to those who were esteemed, lest somehow I run, or had run, in vain.

3. But not even Titus who was with me, though a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

4. But as for the false brothers, sneakingly brought in, who sneaked in to spy out our freedom which we have in Messiah יהושע in order to enslave us,

5. to these we did not yield in subjection, not even for an hour, so that the truth of the Good News remains with you.

6. But from those who were esteemed to be whatever – what they were, it makes no difference to me, Elohim shows no partiality – for those who were esteemed contributed naught to me.

7. But on the contrary, when they saw that the Good News to the uncircumcised had been entrusted to me, even as Kĕpha to the circumcised –

8. for He who worked in Kĕpha to make him an emissary to the circumcised also worked in me for the gentiles.

9. So when Ya‛aqoḇ, Kĕpha, and Yoḥanan, who seemed to be supports, came to know the favour that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnaḇah the right hand of fellowship, in order that we go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised,