Galatians 2:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again? 10 You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years. 11 I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose. 12 My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;
  • Gal 5:11 : 11 But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 And 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.
  • 1 Cor 8:11-12 : 11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death. 12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.
  • Gal 2:4-5 : 4 And 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; 5 To whom we gave way not even for an hour; so that the true words of the good news might still be with you.
  • Gal 2:12-16 : 12 For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways. 14 But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews? 15 We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

    17 But 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!

  • Gal 2:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

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

    20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

    21 I 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.

  • 1 Cor 3:10
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    10 In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

  • Rom 3:7
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    7 But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

  • Rom 7:19-21
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    19 For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

    20 But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

    21 So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

  • Gal 5:1-4
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    72%

    1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

    2 See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

    3 Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

    4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • Jas 2:10-11
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    71%

    10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

    11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

  • Gal 1:13
    71%

    13 For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

  • Rom 7:13-17
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    13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

    15 And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.

    16 But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.

    17 So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

  • Gal 5:11
    71%

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

  • Gal 6:14
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    14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

  • Rom 7:7
    71%

    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

  • Rom 15:20
    70%

    20 Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;

  • Rom 8:2
    70%

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Rom 7:9
    70%

    9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
    69%

    27 But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

  • Rom 3:9
    69%

    9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    69%

    8 For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:

  • Rom 2:27
    69%

    27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

  • Gal 6:1
    69%

    1 Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

  • Rom 3:20
    69%

    20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    69%

    13 For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

  • Rom 2:23
    69%

    23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

  • Rom 2:12
    69%

    12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

  • 2 Cor 5:17
    69%

    17 So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

  • Rom 2:25
    69%

    25 It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
    68%

    18 What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

  • Rom 15:18
    68%

    18 And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • Gal 1:9-10
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    68%

    9 As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him.

    10 Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:21
    68%

    21 To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    68%

    12 But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

  • 2 Cor 2:2
    68%

    2 For if I give you sorrow, who then will make me glad, but he who is made sad by me?

  • Titus 3:11
    68%

    11 Clearly he is in error and a sinner, being self-judged.

  • Phil 3:7
    68%

    7 But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.