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Galatians 2:18
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If I rebuild those things that I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker.
For if I build againe the things which I destroyed, I make my selfe a transgressour.
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
"For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a wrongdoer.
But I would really be wrong to begin teaching again those things that I gave up.
"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.
"For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.
But if I tear down something and then build it again, I prove that I was wrong at first.
Indeed, if I build up again the legalistic bondage which I destroyed, I really do make myself a transgressor.
For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again, I constitute myself a transgressor.
For if I build againe the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser.
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I will prove myself to be a transgressor of the law.
If I start to rebuild the system of Law that I tore down, then I show myself to be someone who breaks the Law.
For if I build up again these things which I destroyed, I show myself to be a transgressor.
For what if I build again these things which I destroyed, I confirm myself as a transgressor.
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
For if I rebuild something that I tore down, I demonstrate that I am a wrongdoer.
For, if those things which I destroyed I build again, I make it manifest of myself that I transgress the commandment.
For if I should build up again the things I had demolished, I should show myself to be a transgressor of the precept.
For yf I builde agayne the thynges which I destroyed, then make I my selfe a trespasser.
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Why, if I am now rebuilding that structure of sin which I had demolished, I am thereby constituting myself a transgressor;
God forbede. And if Y bylde ayen thingis that Y haue distruyed, Y make my silf a trespassour.
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God's law.
For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down.
But if I work toward being made right with God by keeping the Law, then I make myself a sinner.
But if I build up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a transgressor.
For, if, the things that I pulled down, these, again, I build, a transgressor, I prove, myself, to be.
For if I build up again the things which I have destroyed, I make myself a prevaricator.
But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor.
For yf I bylde agayne yt which I destroyed. then make I my selfe a treaspaser.
for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;
For yf I buylde agayne yt which I haue destroyed, then make I my selfe a trespacer.
on the contrary, if I re-establish what I have demolish'd, I show myself a prevaricator.
I'd really be a sinner if I tried to make people do the things that I gave up when I signed on to ride for Jesus.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Galatians 2:4, Galatians 2:5, Galatians 2:12-16, Galatians 2:21, Galatians 4:9-12, Galatians 5:11, Romans 14:15, 1 Corinthians 8:11, 1 Corinthians 8:12
Reciprocal: Romans 6:15 - shall we
Cross-References
God looked at everything he had made. And he saw that everything was very good. There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the sixth day.
Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living thing.
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah.
(There is gold in that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of expensive perfume and onyx are also found there.)
The name of the second river was Gihon. This river flowed around the whole land of Cush.
The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."
Then Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, said to her, "My daughter, maybe I should find a husband and a good home for you. That would be good for you.
If you find a wife, you have found something good. She shows that the Lord is happy with you.
A man might think that he is not doing the right thing with his fiancée. She might be almost past the best age to marry. So he might feel that he should marry her. He should do what he wants. It is no sin for them to get married.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For if I build again the things which I destroyed,.... Which must be understood not of good things, for formerly he destroyed the faith of the Gospel, at least as much as in him lay, and now he built it up, established, and defended it; in doing which he did no evil, or made himself a transgressor, but the reverse; he showed himself a faithful minister of Christ: but of things not lawful, such as the rites and ceremonies of the law of Moses, which were now abrogated, and he had declared to be so all over the Gentile world; and therefore should he go about to establish these things as necessary to salvation, or teach men to join the observance of them with Christ's righteousness for justification, then, says he,
I make myself a transgressor: for he could not be otherwise, be the case how it would with respect to the abrogation, or non-abrogation of the law; for if the law was not abolished, then he made himself a transgressor of it; by neglecting it himself, and teaching others to do so; and if it was abolished, then it must be criminal in him to enforce the observance of it as necessary to a sinner's justification before God. Now though the apostle transfers this to himself, and spoke in his own person to decline all invidious reflections and characters; yet he tacitly regards Peter, and his conduct, who had been taught by the vision the abrogation of the ceremonial law, and acted accordingly by conversing and eating with the Gentiles, and had declared that law to be an insupportable yoke of bondage, which the Gentiles were not obliged to come under; and yet now, by his practice and example, built up and established those very things he had before destroyed, and therefore could not exculpate himself, from being a transgressor: or these things may regard sins and immoralities in life and conversation; and the apostle's sense be, that should he, or any other, take encouragement to sin from the doctrine of free justification by the righteousness of Christ, as if he was the author and minister of sin, and allowed persons in it; this would be to establish sin, which the righteousness of Christ justifies from, and engage in a living in sin, to which, by Christ's righteousness, they are dead unto; than which, nothing can be, a greater contradiction, and which must unavoidably make them not only transgressors of the law, by sinning against it, but apostates, as the word παραβατης here used signifies, from the Gospel; such must act quite contrary to the nature, use, and design of the Gospel in general, and this doctrine in particular, which teaches men to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and that being dead to sin, they should live unto righteousness.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For if I build again the things which I destroyed - Paul here uses the first person; but he evidently intends it as a general proposition, and means that if anyone does it he becomes a transgressor. The sense is, that if a man, having removed or destroyed that which was evil, again introduces it or establishes it, he does wrong, and is a transgressor of the Law of God. The particular application here, as it seems to me, is to the subject of circumcision and the other rites of the Mosaic law. They had been virtually abolished by the coming of the Redeemer, and by the doctrine of justification by faith. It had been seen that there was no necessity for their observance, and of that Peter and the others had been fully aware. Yet they were lending their influence again to establish them or to build them up again. They complied with them, and they insisted on the necessity of their observance. Their conduct, therefore, was that of building up again that which had once been destroyed, destroyed by the ministry, and toils, and death of the Lord Jesus, and by the fair influence of his gospel. To rebuild that again; to re-establish those customs, was wrong, and now involved the guilt of a transgression of the Law of God. Doddridge supposes that this is an address to the Galatians, and that the address to Peter closed at the previous verse. But it is impossible to determine this; and it seems to me more probable that this is all a part of the address to Peter; or rather perhaps to the assembly when Peter was present; see the note at Galatians 2:15.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 18. For if I build again the things which I destroyed — If I act like a Jew, and enjoin the observance of the law on the Gentiles, which I have repeatedly asserted and proved to be abolished by the death of Christ, then I build up what I destroyed, and thus make myself a transgressor, by not observing the law in that way in which I appear to enjoin the observance of it upon others.
