Galatians 2:18

For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

17But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

19For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

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Cross References

Romans 14:15And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

Galatians 2:4And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

Galatians 2:21I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

Galatians 5:11But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 2:12-21

Peter Reproved by Paul. ( a. d. 56.) 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the… Read the whole commentary →

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