Galatians 2:19
17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
- KJV
- For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
- WEB
- For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
- ASV
- For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
- DARBY
- For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.
- BLB
- For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
- ÅB
- For jeg er ved loven død for loven for å leve for Gud;
- OTB
- For ved loven har jeg dødd for loven, slik at jeg kan leve for Gud.
- B1930
- For jeg er ved loven død for loven for å leve for Gud;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Read in contextRomans 6:2
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Read in contextRomans 6:11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:15
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Read in contextRomans 3:19–20
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Read in contextRomans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Read in contextRomans 14:7–8
For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
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