19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
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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.
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)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. But to give the greater weight to what he had already said, and more fully to fortify them against the i…
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