Galatians 2:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ γὰρ ἃ κατέλυσα, ταῦτα πάλιν οἰκοδομῶ παραβάτην ἐμαυτὸν συνίστημι.

Transliteration

For if what I katelysa, these palin oikodomō, parabatēn emauton synistēmi.

Grammar Details

*ei gar*: conditional particle + conjunction - for if
*ha*: relative pronoun, accusative, neuter, plural - what/the things which
*katelysa*: aorist, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I destroyed/tore down
*tauta*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative, neuter, plural - these things
*palin*: adverb - again
*oikodomō*: present, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I build up
*parabatēn*: accusative, masculine, singular - transgressor/lawbreaker
*emauton*: accusative, reflexive pronoun, 1st person singular - myself
*synistēmi*: present, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I prove/establish/demonstrate

Word Meanings

*katelysa*: I destroyed/I tore down/I demolished
*oikodomō*: I build up/I construct/I establish
*parabatēn*: transgressor/lawbreaker/violator
*synistēmi*: prove/establish/demonstrate/show myself to be

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Referenced Verses

Gal 4:9-9 : 9 but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years. 11 I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain. 12 I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are]. Ye did me no wrong:
Gal 5:11 : 11 But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.
Rom 14:15 : 15 For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, {G3765} thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.
1 Cor 8:11-12 : 11 For through thy knowledge {G622} he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 And thus, sinning {G3779} against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.
Gal 2:4-5 : 4 and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 to whom we gave place in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Gal 2:12-16 : 12 For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 15 We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but {G3361} through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

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