but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
Peter's ordinance to minister among the Jews and mine to minister among the Gentiles both came from God, equally divine. The Gospel is a sacred trust committed by God Himself, and we who undertake it are accountable to Him alone. Yet neither the person of the minister nor the natural force of words secures success; it is the effectual working of the Holy Spirit that makes the Gospel mighty.
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The apostles gave me their right hand not out of condescension but as equals in partnership. They recognized that God had entrusted the Gospel of the uncircumcision to me just as He had entrusted the circumcision to Peter; in acknowledging this, they refused to take from me what God had given. Those who opposed my apostleship were attempting what the apostles themselves durst not attempt: to oppose God's own election.
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James, Cephas, and John saw that the same Gospel, not two gospels, one for Gentiles and one for Jews, was committed to me as a divine trust just as it was to Peter. We did not preach different doctrines to different peoples; the same Gospel went out by different hands to different nations. This divine arrangement they recognized and ratified by giving us the right hand of fellowship.
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