Parallel Verses
Amplified
For if I [or anyone else should] rebuild [through word or by practice] what I once tore down [the belief that observing the Law is essential for salvation], I prove myself to be a transgressor.
New American Standard Bible
For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I
King James Version
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Holman Bible
If I rebuild
International Standard Version
For if I rebuild something that I tore down, I demonstrate that I am a wrongdoer.
A Conservative Version
For if I build again these things that I torn down, I demonstrate myself a transgressor.
American Standard Version
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
An Understandable Version
For if I try to build up again what I had already destroyed [i.e., by returning to depend on compliance with the law of Moses to become right with God, after having rejected this system by trusting in Christ to save me], I would certainly be guilty of sin.
Anderson New Testament
For if I build again those things which I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Bible in Basic English
For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.
Common New Testament
For if I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
Daniel Mace New Testament
on the contrary, if I re-establish what I have demolish'd, I show myself a prevaricator.
Darby Translation
For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again, I constitute myself a transgressor.
Godbey New Testament
For if I again build the things which I have destroyed, I constitute myself a transgressor.
Goodspeed New Testament
I really convict myself of wrongdoing when I start to rebuild what I tore down.
John Wesley New Testament
God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Julia Smith Translation
For if what I destroy, these I build again, I unite myself with the transgressor.
King James 2000
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For if I build up again these [things] which I destroyed, I show myself [to be] a transgressor.
Modern King James verseion
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I confirm myself as a transgressor.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if I build again that which I destroyed, then make I myself a trespasser.
Moffatt New Testament
I really convict myself of transgression when I rebuild what I destroyed.
Montgomery New Testament
For if I am rebuilding the very things which I destroyed, I am proving myself a transgressor.
NET Bible
But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God's law.
New Heart English Bible
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
Noyes New Testament
For if I again build up what I pulled down, I make myself a transgressor.
Sawyer New Testament
For if I build up again what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
The Emphasized Bible
For, if, the things that I pulled down, these, again, I build, a transgressor, I prove, myself, to be.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if I build up again the very same things which I have pulled down, I stamp myself a transgressor.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For, if I rebuild the very things that I pulled down, I prove myself to have done wrong.
Webster
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Weymouth New Testament
Why, if I am now rebuilding that structure of sin which I had demolished, I am thereby constituting myself a transgressor;
Williams New Testament
For if I try to build again what I tore down, I really prove myself to be a wrongdoer.
World English Bible
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
Worrell New Testament
For, if I am building up again, what I pulled down, I show myself to be a transgressor.
Worsley New Testament
God forbid. And if I build again the same things which I demolished, I shew myself a transgressor: for I through the law am dead to the law,
Youngs Literal Translation
for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;
Themes
Justification » Justification coming by jesus Christ
Justification before God » Under the gospel » Is not of faith and works united
Interlinear
Kataluo
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Galatians 2:18
Prayers for Galatians 2:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Justified By Faith In Christ
17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ [by faith], we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ an advocate or promoter of our sin? Certainly not! 18 For if I [or anyone else should] rebuild [through word or by practice] what I once tore down [the belief that observing the Law is essential for salvation], I prove myself to be a transgressor. 19 For through the Law I died to the Law and its demands on me [because salvation is provided through the death and resurrection of Christ], so that I might [from now on] live to God.
Cross References
Romans 14:15
If your brother is being hurt or offended because of food [that you insist on eating], you are no longer walking in love [toward him]. Do not let what you eat destroy and spiritually harm one for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:11-12
For through your knowledge (spiritual maturity) this weak man is ruined [that is, he suffers in his spiritual life], the brother for whom Christ died.
Galatians 2:4-5
My concern was because of the
Galatians 2:12-16
Before certain men came from James, he used to eat [his meals] with the Gentiles; but when the men [from Jerusalem] arrived, he began to withdraw and separate himself [from the Gentile believers], because he was afraid of those from the
Galatians 4:9-12
Now, however, since you have come to know [the true] God [through personal experience], or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are turning back again to the weak and worthless elemental principles [of religions and philosophies], to which you want to be enslaved all over again?
Galatians 5:11
But as for me,
Galatians 2:21
I do not ignore or nullify the [gracious gift of the] grace of God [His amazing, unmerited favor], for if righteousness comes through [observing] the Law, then Christ died needlessly. [His suffering and death would have had no purpose whatsoever.]”