"For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God." — Galatians 2:19

Galatians 2:19 · KJV

“For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.”

— Galatians 2:19

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

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.

Galatians 2 — Context

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.

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.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness {come} by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

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.

Romans 6:2

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

1 Thessalonians 5:10

Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

2 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.

Romans 6:11

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 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. {guilty...: or, subject to the judgment of God}

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 14:7-8

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.