Galatians 2:19
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
KJV
ἐγὼ γὰρ διὰ νόμου νόμῳ ἀπέθανον ἵνα θεῷ ζήσω.
Greek NT
Ego enim per legem, legi mortuus sum, ut Deo vivam : Christo confixus sum cruci.
Vulgate
For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
ASV
For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
ζάω
zao
verb · 140×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko
verb · 112×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Mediator Dei · 5 passages
§74The fourth end, finally, is that of impetration. Man, being the prodigal son, has made bad use of and dissipated the goods which he received from his heavenly Father. Accordingly, he has been reduced to the utmost poverty and to extreme degradation. However, Christ on the cross "offering prayers and supplications with a loud cry and tears, has been heard for His reverence."[70]…
§78The cooperation of the faithful is required so that sinners may be individually purified in the blood of the Lamb. For though, speaking generally, Christ reconciled by His painful death the whole human race with the Father, He wished that all should approach and be drawn to His cross, especially by means of the sacraments and the eucharistic sacrifice, to obtain the salutary fr…
§81It is quite true that Christ is a priest; but He is a priest not for Himself but for us, when in the name of the whole human race He offers our prayers and religious homage to the eternal Father; He is also a victim and for us since He substitutes Himself for sinful man. Now the exhortation of the Apostle, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus," requires that …
…and 2 more from this source.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 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. These words are full of strong consolation. By faith the Christian takes hold of Christ, and Christ dwel…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:31 — Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
- 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
- 1Pet 4:2 — That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
- 1Pet 4:6 — For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
- 1Thess 5:10 — Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
- 2Cor 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.
- 2Cor 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.
- 2Tim 2:11 — It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
- Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Col 2:20 — Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
- Col 2:20 — Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
- Col 3:1 — If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- Gal 2:16 — Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the
- Gal 2:20 — 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 fo
- Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
- Gal 3:21 — Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
- Gal 3:24 — Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Gal 3:24 — Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- John 5:46 — For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
- Ps 19:8 — The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Rom 3:19 — 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.
- Rom 3:20 — Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
- Rom 3:31 — Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
- Rom 4:15 — Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
- Rom 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
- Rom 6:2 — God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
- Rom 6:2 — God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
- Rom 6:11 — Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Rom 6:11 — Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Rom 6:14 — For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
- Rom 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 G
- Rom 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 G
- Rom 7:6 — But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
- Rom 7:6 — But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
- Rom 7:9 — For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- Rom 7:14 — For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
- Rom 7:22 — For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: