Galatians 2:19

for it is by the Law that I have died to the Law, in order that I may live to God.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18Why, if I am now rebuilding that structure of sin which I had demolished, I am thereby constituting myself a transgressor;

20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

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Cross References

Romans 4:15For the Law inflicts punishment; but where no Law exists, there can be no violation of Law.

Romans 6:2No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Romans 6:14For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects not of Law, but of grace.

Romans 7:6But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.

Romans 7:22For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;

Romans 10:4For as a means of righteousness Christ is the termination of Law to every believer.

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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