Galatians 2:19

I, indeed, through Law became dead to Law, in order to live for God.

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For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

In Context

18For, if I rebuild the things that I pulled down, I prove myself to have done wrong.

20I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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Cross References

Romans 4:15Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.

Romans 6:2Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, so how can we go on living in it?

Romans 6:14For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love.

Romans 7:6But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.

Romans 7:22At heart I delight in the Law of God;

Romans 10:4For Christ has brought Law to an end, so that righteousness may be obtained by everyone who believes in him.

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 →

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