NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Galatians 2:7

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but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

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Galatians 2:4–10

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This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

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to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

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But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

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but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

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for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

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and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

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They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

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