Galatians 2:18 “If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a law…”

Galatians 2:18

If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

World English Bible

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

American Standard Version

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

Geneva Bible 1599

For if I build againe the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser.

Darby Translation

For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again, I constitute myself a transgressor.

Young's Literal Translation

for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;

Bible in Basic English

For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

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Cross references

“For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.”

Galatians 4:9–12 Galatians 2:12–16 Galatians 2:21 Romans 14:15 Galatians 5:11 Galatians 2:4

Galatians 4:9–12 · BSB

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

Galatians 2:12–16 · BSB

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

Galatians 2:21 · BSB

I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

Romans 14:15 · BSB

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

Galatians 5:11 · BSB

Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

Galatians 2:4 · BSB

This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!

19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

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