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Galatians 2:19

New Century Version

It was the law that put me to death, and I died to the law so that I can now live for God.

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because the law can only bring God’s anger. But if there is no law, there is nothing to disobey.

The law came to make sin worse. But when sin grew worse, God’s grace increased.

In the same way, you should see yourselves as being dead to the power of sin and alive with God through Christ Jesus.

Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law but under God’s grace.

No! We died to our old sinful lives, so how can we continue living with sin?

We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not spiritual since sin rules me as if I were its slave.

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, your old selves died, and you became free from the law through the body of Christ. This happened so that you might belong to someone else—the One who was raised from the dead—and so that we might be used in service to God.

Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made you free from the law that brings sin and death.

The answer is, if you eat or drink, or if you do anything, do it all for the glory of God.

To the Jews I became like a Jew to win the Jews. I myself am not ruled by the law. But to those who are ruled by the law I became like a person who is ruled by the law. I did this to win those who are ruled by the law.

Christ died for all so that those who live would not continue to live for themselves. He died for them and was raised from the dead so that they would live for him.

I was put to death on the cross with Christ, and I do not live anymore—it is Christ who lives in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself to save me.

But those who depend on following the law to make them right are under a curse, because the Scriptures say, “Anyone will be cursed who does not always obey what is written in the Book of the Law.”

In other words, the law was our guardian leading us to Christ so that we could be made right with God through faith.

I hope I will never brag about things like that. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is my only reason for bragging. Through the cross of Jesus my world was crucified, and I died to the world.

Since you died with Christ and were made free from the ruling spirits of the world, why do you act as if you still belong to this world by following rules like these:

Your old sinful self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God.

Jesus died for us so that we can live together with him, whether we are alive or dead when he comes.

He gave himself for us so he might pay the price to free us from all evil and to make us pure people who belong only to him—people who are always wanting to do good deeds.

How much more is done by the blood of Christ. He offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make our consciences pure from useless acts so we may serve the living God.

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so we would stop living for sin and start living for what is right. And you are healed because of his wounds.

For this reason the Good News was preached to those who are now dead. Even though they were judged like all people, the Good News was preached to them so they could live in the spirit as God lives.




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