Galatians 2:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.”
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BSBPD
“For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Galatians 2:19 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Romans 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
- Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- Romans 6:2Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
- Romans 6:11So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
- Romans 7:6But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
- Romans 7:14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
- Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- Romans 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
- Romans 10:4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
- Romans 14:7For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
- 1 Corinthians 10:31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:15And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
- Galatians 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- Galatians 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- Galatians 3:24So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Colossians 2:20If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
- Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Hebrews 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
- 1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
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