18 For if I build again the things that I have destroyed, I make myself a trespasser.

19 For I through the Law am dead to the [a]Law, that I might live unto God.

20 I am crucified with Christ, but I live, yet not [b]I anymore, but Christ liveth in me: and in that I now live in the [c]flesh, I live by the faith in the Son of God, who hath loved me, and given himself for me.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:19 The Law that terrifieth the conscience, bringeth us to Christ, and he only causeth us to die to the Law indeed, because that by making us righteous, he taketh away from us the terror of conscience, and by sanctifying us, causeth through the mortifying of lust in us, that it cannot take such occasion to sin by the restraint which the Law maketh, as it did before, Rom. 7:10-11.
  2. Galatians 2:20 The same that I was before.
  3. Galatians 2:20 In this mortal body.

18 If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.

19 “For through the law I died to the law(A) so that I might live for God.(B) 20 I have been crucified with Christ(C) and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.(D) The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,(E) who loved me(F) and gave himself for me.(G)

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