Galatians 2:18
Galatians 2:17-18 The Message (MSG)
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.
Galatians 2:18 King James Version (KJV)
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Galatians 2:18 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
Galatians 2:18 New Century Version (NCV)
But I would really be wrong to begin teaching again those things that I gave up.
Galatians 2:18 American Standard Version (ASV)
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
Galatians 2:18 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a law-breaker.
Galatians 2:18 New King James Version (NKJV)
For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Galatians 2:18 Amplified Bible (AMP)
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.
Galatians 2:18 New Living Translation (NLT)
Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down.