Galatians 2:18

World English Bible (2000)

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

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  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? 10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years. 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you. 12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
  • Gal 5:11 : 11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
  • 1 Cor 8:11-12 : 11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
  • Gal 2:4-5 : 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage; 5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
  • Gal 2:12-16 : 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do? 15 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 2:16-17
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    79%

    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • Gal 2:19-21
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    77%

    19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

    20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

    21I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

  • 1 Cor 3:10
    72%

    10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

  • Rom 3:7
    72%

    7For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

  • Rom 7:19-21
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    19For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

    20But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

    21I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

  • Gal 5:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

    2Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

    3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

    4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • Jas 2:10-11
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    71%

    10For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

    11For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  • Gal 1:13
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    13For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

  • Rom 7:13-17
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    13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

    15For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

    16But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

    17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

  • Gal 5:11
    71%

    11But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Rom 7:7
    71%

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

  • Rom 15:20
    70%

    20yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.

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

  • Rom 7:9
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    9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
    69%

    27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

  • Rom 3:9
    69%

    9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    69%

    8For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

  • Rom 2:27
    69%

    27Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

  • Gal 6:1
    69%

    1Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

  • Rom 3:20
    69%

    20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    69%

    13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • Rom 2:23
    69%

    23You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

  • Rom 2:12
    69%

    12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • 2 Cor 5:17
    69%

    17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

  • Rom 2:25
    69%

    25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
    68%

    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

  • Rom 15:18
    68%

    18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • Rom 4:15
    68%

    15For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • Gal 1:9-10
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    68%

    9As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:21
    68%

    21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    68%

    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 2:2
    68%

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

  • Titus 3:11
    68%

    11knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

  • Phil 3:7
    68%

    7However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.