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

For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

Now we know that everything the law says is spoken to those who are under its authority, that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be held responsible to God.

For the law results in wrath alone, but where there is no law, there can be no violation of it.

Then law crept in to multiply the offense. Though sin has multiplied, yet God's favor has surpassed it and overflowed,

What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."

For the life-giving power of the Spirit through union with Christ Jesus has set us free from the power of sin and death.

For Christ has put an end to law as a way to right standing for everyone who puts his trust in Him.

Dead

Not at all! Since we have ended our relation to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

So, my brothers, you too in the body of Christ have ended your relation to the law, so that you may be married to another husband, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,

for you have died, and your life is now hidden in God through your fellowship with Christ.

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

General references

For none of us can live alone by himself, and none of us can die alone by himself;