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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.
But I would be wrong to begin teaching again those things that I gave up.
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.
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
And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.
And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.
And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.
And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.
He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.
But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will. He sinneth not if she marry.
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.
