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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 2, Verse 18

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For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
King James Version
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
American Standard Version
For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
New English Translation
Inheritance Comes from Promises and not Law Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.
World English Bible
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
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I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
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O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
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This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
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Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if [it be] yet in vain.
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He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
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Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
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And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed.