Galatians 2:18 - Compare All Versions

শেয়ার

Have some of you noticed that we are not yet perfect? (No great surprise, right?) And are you ready to make the accusation that since people like me, who go through Christ in order to get things right with God, aren’t perfectly virtuous, Christ must therefore be an accessory to sin? The accusation is frivolous. If I was “trying to be good,” I would be rebuilding the same old barn that I tore down. I would be acting as a pretender.

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

But I would really be wrong to begin teaching again those things that I gave up.

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

If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.

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

For if I [or anyone else should] rebuild [through word or by practice] what I once tore down [the belief that observing the Law is essential for salvation], I prove myself to be a transgressor.

Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down.

For if I start over and reconstruct the old religious system that I had torn down with the message of grace, I would appear to be a lawbreaker.

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