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

but they that rest themselves upon the works of the law, are obnoxious to the curse: for it is written, " cursed is every one, who continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them:"

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every one may be silenc'd, and all the world plead guilty before God.

because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.

the law was introduc'd, that the greatness of the fall might fully appear; but the more sin display'd its enormity, the divine favour was so much the more transcendent.

Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, "thou shalt not covet."

for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

for the end of the law was to bring men to Christ, that every one who believeth, might be justified.

Dead

God forbid, that we who have died to sin should live any longer therein.

thus, my brethren, the law is become dead with respect to you by the body of Christ; that you might be subject to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

If then you are dead with Christ, in respect of those shadows of the Jewish state; why do ye, as if you were still in that state, submit to those ordinances?

for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.

he himself cancel'd our sins by the crucifixion of his body, that we being set free from sin, might live in the service of virtue. it is by his bruises that you were healed:

General references

for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.