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What does Galatians 2:3 mean?

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

— Galatians 2:3 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

2

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

3

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

4

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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