Galatians 2:18
For if I should build up again the things I had demolished, I should show myself to be a transgressor of the precept.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
In Context
Cross References
Romans 14:15But if thou grievest thy brother, because of food, thou walkest not in love. On account of food, destroy not him for whom Messiah died.
Galatians 2:4And in regard to the false brethren, who had crept in to spy out the liberty we have in Jesus the Messiah, in order to bring me under subjection;
Galatians 2:21I do not spurn the grace of God. For if righteousness is by means of the law, the Messiah died in vain.
Galatians 5:11And I, my brethren, if I still preached circumcision, why should I suffer persecution? Hath the offensiveness of the cross ceased?
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 →