Galatians 2:18

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For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

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  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11 I fear for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been in vain. 12 I beg you, brothers: Become like me, for I also became like you. You have done me no wrong.
  • Gal 5:11 : 11 Brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, the offense of the cross would be eliminated.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
  • 1 Cor 8:11-12 : 11 So the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 When you sin in this way against your brothers and sisters and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.
  • Gal 2:4-5 : 4 This arose because of false brothers who were secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so they might bring us into bondage. 5 But we did not yield in submission to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.
  • Gal 2:12-16 : 12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they came, he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision group. 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, 'If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?' 15 We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

    17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • Gal 2:19-21
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    19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ.

    20 I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

    21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:10
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    10 According to the grace God has given me, like a wise master builder, I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each one should be careful how they build.

  • Rom 3:7
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    7 If the truth of God has increased His glory through my falsehood, why am I still judged as a sinner?

  • Rom 7:19-21
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    19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

    20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

    21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

  • Gal 5:1-4
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    1 For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

    2 Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

    3 Again I declare to every man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

    4 You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

  • Jas 2:10-11
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    10 For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking it all.

    11 For He who said, 'You shall not commit adultery,' also said, 'You shall not murder.' Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  • Gal 1:13
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    13 For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

  • Rom 7:13-17
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    13 Did what is good then become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, used what is good to bring about my death, so that sin might become utterly sinful through the commandment.

    14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

    15 For I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do.

    16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

    17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

  • Gal 5:11
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    11 Brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, the offense of the cross would be eliminated.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14 But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.'

  • Rom 15:20
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    20 It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.

  • Rom 8:2
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    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Rom 7:9
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    9 At one time I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27 Rather, I discipline my body and bring it under control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already charged that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    69%

    8 Even if I boast a little more about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

  • Rom 2:27
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    27 The one who is not physically circumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

  • Gal 6:1
    69%

    1 Brothers, if someone is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual should restore such a person with a gentle spirit. Watch yourself, so that you too might not be tempted.

  • Rom 3:20
    69%

    20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    69%

    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

  • Rom 2:23
    69%

    23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

  • Rom 2:12
    69%

    12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • 2 Cor 5:17
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    17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

  • Rom 2:25
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    25 Circumcision indeed has value if you obey the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18 What then is my reward? It is that when I preach the gospel, I may offer it free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

  • Rom 15:18
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    18 I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Gal 1:9-10
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    9 As we have said before, so now I say again: if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed!

    10 For am I now trying to win the approval of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:21
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    21 To those without the law, I became like one without the law (not being without God’s law but under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing, so that I can cut off the opportunity of those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

  • 2 Cor 2:2
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    2 For if I grieve you, who then will make me glad but the one who is grieved by me?

  • Titus 3:11
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    11 Knowing that such a person is warped, sinful, and self-condemned.

  • Phil 3:7
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    7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss because of Christ.