Galatians 2:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.”
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“If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Galatians 2:18 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Romans 14:15If 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.
- 1 Corinthians 8:11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
- Galatians 2:4This 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.
- Galatians 2:12For 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 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.
- Galatians 4:9But 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 5:11Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
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