Galatians 2:19

King James Version (KJV)

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

Translations

Galatians 2:19 - Amplified Bible

For I through the Law [under the operation of the curse of the Law] have [in Christ's death for me] myself died to the Law {and} all the Law's demands upon me, so that I may [henceforth] live to {and} for God.

Galatians 2:19 - American Standard Version

For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

Galatians 2:19 - Bible in Basic English

For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

Galatians 2:19 - Darby Bible

For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.

Galatians 2:19 - English Standard Version

For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.

Galatians 2:19 - King James Version

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

Galatians 2:19 - La Biblia de las Americas

Pues mediante la ley yo morì a la ley, a fin de vivir para Dios.

Galatians 2:19 - The Message

What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a "law man" so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.   Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.

Galatians 2:19 - New American Standard Bible

~"For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.

Galatians 2:19 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

~"Pues mediante la Ley yo morì a la Ley, a fin de vivir para Dios.

Galatians 2:19 - World English Bible

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 2:19 - Young's Living Translation

for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

Galatians 2:19 - Additional Comments

The true path to holiness is not to do the works, to obey the law, but to have a relationship with God, to love, obey, and serve Him.
Do others see Christ in you, in your thoughts/decisions/actions? Do they see works, or a relationship with God?

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