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  • Galatians 2:18
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 18 If the very things that I once tore down I build up again, I demonstrate that I am a transgressor.

  • Galatians 2:18
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 18 εἰ if γὰρ for ἃ what (things) κατέλυσα I loosed down ταῦτα these (things) πάλιν again οἰκοδομῶ, I am building up, παραβάτην transgressor ἐμαυτὸν myself συνιστάνω. I am constituting.

  • Galatians 2:18
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 18 For if the very things that I once threw down I build up again,+ I demonstrate myself to be a transgressor.+

  • Galatians 2:18
    The Bible in Living English
    • 18 For if I build up again what I did break down, I certify myself a transgressor.

  • Galatians 2:18
    American Standard Version
    • 18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

  • Galatians 2:18
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 18 For if the things that I pulled down these again I build A transgressor I prove myself to be.

  • Galatians 2:18
    King James Version
    • 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

  • Galatians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 2:18 it-2 967

  • Galatians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 2:18 w76 297-298; w45 215

  • Galatians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 2:18

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 967

  • Galatians Study Notes—Chapter 2
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 2:18

      the very things that I once tore down: Paul at one time was zealous for Judaism, believing that he could gain a righteous standing with God by works of the Mosaic Law. (See study note on Ga 1:13.) But he figuratively tore down that belief when he became a Christian. (Ga 2:15, 16) His opposers claimed that Christians could gain salvation only by strictly following the Law. (Ga 1:9; 5:2-12) Paul explains here that if he put himself​—or if any of the other Jewish Christians put themselves​—back under the Mosaic Law, the result would be to build up again those “very things.” He would also again make himself a transgressor of that Law, subject to its condemnation.​—See study note on Ga 3:19.

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