Bible verse

Galatians 2:18

If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

Galatians 2:18 · BSB

Galatians 2:18 in context

The verses around it, from Galatians 2.

14 When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

15 We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”

16 know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!

18 If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

19 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

21 I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.

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Galatians 2:18 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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