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Galatians 2:19 KJV
Galatians · chapter 2 · verse 19
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.Galatians 2:19 · King James Version
Galatians 2:19 in context
17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
20I 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.
21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
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Key words (Strong's)
- throughdiathrough, of place, with, in, of time, throughout, during, of means, by, by the means of…G1223 →
- deadapothnēskōto die, of the natural death of man, of the violent death of man or animals, to perish by…G599 →
- livezaōto live, breathe, be among the living , to enjoy real life, to have true life and worthy…G2198 →
- lawnomosanything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command, of any law…G3551 →
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I. From the account which Paul gives of what passed between him and the other apostles at Jerusalem, the Galatians might easily discern both the falseness of what his enemies had insinuated against him and their own folly and weakness in departing from that gospel which he had preached to them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-21