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

Certainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!"

Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

for the Law produces wrath. Now where there is no Law, neither can there be any violation of it.

Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,

What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

For the Spirit's law of life in the Messiah Jesus has set me free from the Law of sin and death.

For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.

Dead

Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

If you have died with the Messiah to the basic principles of the world, why are you submitting to its decrees as though you still lived in the world?

For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.

"He himself bore our sins" in his body on the tree, so that we might die to those sins and live righteously. "By his wounds you have been healed."

General references

For none of us lives for himself, and no one dies for himself.