Galatians 2:19

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Summary

Galatians 2:19

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

Through

Romans 10:4

Dead

1 Peter 2:24

General references

Romans 14:7

Bible References

Through

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.

Dead

Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.

As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like

for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

General references

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself;