Galatians 2:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ But if I build up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a transgressor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ For if I [or any others who have taught that the observance of the Law of Moses is not essential to being justified by God should now by word or practice teach or intimate that it is essential to] build up again what I tore down, I prove myself a transgressor.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ If I rebuild the very things that I tore down, I show that I myself am breaking the Law.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ For if I rebuild the things that I have destroyed, I establish myself as a prevaricator.

Galatians 2:18 Cross References

Romans 14:15

If your brother or sister is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died.

Galatians 5:11

But my brothers and sisters, why am I still being persecuted if I am still preaching circumcision? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

Galatians 2:21

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

Romans 2:25

Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Romans 3:5

But if our injustice serves to confirm the justice of God, what should we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)