Galatians 2:19

For, I, through means of law, unto law, died, that, unto God, I might live:—

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, the things that I pulled down, these, again, I build, a transgressor, I prove, myself, to be.

20With Christ, have I been crucified; and, living no longer, am, I, but, living in me, is, Christ,—while, so far as I now do live in flesh, by faith, I live—The faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up in my behalf.

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Cross References

Romans 4:15For, the law, worketh out anger, but, where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 6:2Far be it! we who have died unto sin, how, any longer, shall we live therein?

Romans 6:14For, sin, over you, shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under favour.

Romans 7:6But, now, we have received full release from the law, by dying [in that] wherein we used to be held fast, so that we should be doing service—in newness of spirit and not in obsoleteness of letter.

Romans 7:22I have, in fact, a sympathetic pleasure in the law of God; according to the inner man.

Romans 10:4For Christ is an end of law, for righteousness, unto every one that believeth.

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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