Galatians 2:18
Why, if I am now rebuilding that structure of sin which I had demolished, I am thereby constituting myself a transgressor;
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
In Context
19for it is by the Law that I have died to the Law, in order that I may live to God.
Cross References
Romans 14:15If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died.
Galatians 2:4Yet there was danger of this through the false brethren secretly introduced into the Church, who had stolen in to spy out the freedom which is ours in Christ Jesus, in order to rob us of it.
Galatians 2:21I do not nullify the grace of God; for if acquittal from guilt is obtainable through the Law, then Christ has died in vain."
Galatians 5:11As for me, brethren, if I am still a preacher of circumcision, how is it that I am still suffering persecution? In that case the Cross has ceased to be a stumbling-block!
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 →