Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
1 Fourteen years later I went back to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
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Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also.
2 I went because God revealed to me that I should go. In a private meeting with the leaders I explained the gospel message that I preach to the Gentiles. I did not want my work in the past or in the present to be a failure.
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I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain.
3 My companion Titus, even though he is Greek, was not forced to be circumcised,
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Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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