Parallel Verses
Montgomery New Testament
For if I am rebuilding the very things which I destroyed, I am proving myself 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.
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.
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.
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
Images Galatians 2:18
Prayers for Galatians 2:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Justified By Faith In Christ
17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves also have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Far from it! 18 For if I am rebuilding the very things which I destroyed, I am proving myself a transgressor. 19 For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God.
Cross References
Romans 14:15
If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:11-12
So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.
Galatians 2:4-5
Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.
Galatians 2:12-16
For until certain men came from James he used to eat with the Gentile Christians, but when they came, he began to draw back and to separate himself, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.
Galatians 4:9-12
Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?
Galatians 5:11
But I, brothers, if I "still preach circumcision," why am I still persecuted? Then surely the stumbling-block of the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle!
Galatians 2:21
I do not annul the grace of God; for if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ died Christ for nothing.