For if your brother is grieved on account of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy by your food the one for whom Messiah died.
Galatians 2:18 - Tree of Life Version For if I rebuild the very things I tore down, I prove myself to be a law-breaker. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor. Common English Bible If I rebuild the very things that I tore down, I show that I myself am breaking the Law. Catholic Public Domain Version For if I rebuild the things that I have destroyed, I establish myself as a prevaricator. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if I build up again the things which I have destroyed, I make myself a prevaricator. |
For if your brother is grieved on account of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy by your food the one for whom Messiah died.
Circumcision is indeed worthwhile if you keep the Torah; but if you break the Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God is not unrighteous to inflict wrath, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)
I do not nullify the grace of God—for if righteousness comes through Torah, then Messiah died for no reason!
As for me, brothers and sisters, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the stumbling block of the cross has been eliminated.