Galatians 2:19
For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
In Context
18For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.
Cross References
Romans 4:15For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
Romans 6:2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
Romans 6:14For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
Romans 7:6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
Romans 7:22In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
Romans 10:4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 2:12-21
Peter Reproved by Paul. ( a. d. 56.) 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the… Read the whole commentary →