Galatians 2:20-21 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:19-21

The death of legal hope the life of evangelical obedience. Paul proceeds in the exposition of Peter's mistake to show that it is only when through the Law we die to all legal hope, we can live unto God. When legal hope has died within us, Christ has room to live and be the source of our spiritual energy. I. CONSIDER THE DEATH OF LEGALISM . ( Galatians 2:19 , Galatians 2:20 .) The idea of self-righteousness or Pharisaism was and is that we can live through the Law. But... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:20

This verse brings out into fuller detail the several points bound up in the succinct statement of Galatians 2:19 . I am crucified with Christ ( χριστῷ συνεσταύρωμαι ); I have been crucified with Christ. I am on the cross, fastened thereto with Christ; the object, therefore, with him of the Law's abhorrence and anathema. If we ask, how and when he became thus blended with Christ in his crucifixion, we have the answer suggested by himself in Romans 6:3 , Romans 6:6 , "Are ye... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:20

Fellowship with Christ in his death and in his life. "I have been crucified: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." The apostle is showing how he died to the Law and became released from legal bondage; it was through his becoming a partaker of the death of Christ. 2. FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST IN HIS DEATH . "I have been crucified with Christ." 1 . Here is a true identity of position. I was one with him under Law and in suffering and death, so that when... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:20

The nature and conditions of Christian life. "The life which I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the San of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." I. THE NATURE OF THIS LIFE . There is a mystery surrounding the origin of all life. There is mystery, too, in regeneration ( John 3:8 ). Yet spiritual life is due to the quickening power of the Holy Spirit, through the Word, "making all things new." The first effect of regeneration is faith; and the life thus... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:20

Crucified with Christ. St. Paul's Christianity was identification of the Christian with Christ. It was not merely believing a scheme of doctrine, nor following a certain course of devotion, nor accepting an offered grace. It was absolute union with Christ in spiritual experience. Nothing is more characteristic of the apostle than the way in which, in almost every Epistle, he describes the Christian life as going step by step with the life of Christ from the earthly humiliation and death to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate the grace of God ( οὐκ ἀθετῶ τὴν χάριν τοῦ θεοῦ ); I do not reject the grace of God. As I should be doing, it; instead of resting with "glorified" ( 1 Peter 1:8 ) satisfaction in the fatherly love and complacency with which God regards me in Christ, I began to give anxious heed to what the Law prescribes touching things or persons clean or unclean, and to deem it possible and needful to secure acceptableness with God through works of ceremonial performance. If... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:21

No frustration of Divine grace in the apostle's teaching. "I do not frustrate the grace of God; for if righteousness come by the Law, then Christ died without cause." I. THE GRACE OF GOD IS THE TRUE SOURCE OF SALVATION . This grace was manifested in the death of Christ, and in the blessings derived to believers from their union with him. The apostle's trust in him only magnified the grace of God. II. ITS FRUSTRATION WAS POSSIBLE ON PETER 'S ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:21

Grace frustrated. I. IF WE SEEK FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS BY MEANS OF LAW WE MAKE NO USE OF THE GRACE OF GOD . Here are two rival methods for obtaining righteousness. The first is wide and various, by means of Law, any law—the Levitical system, ascetic discipline, rites of heathen mysteries, Stoic philosophy, our own attempts to conform to an outside rule. The second is specific, the grace of God, the grace shown in the gospel, the grace that comes through the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Galatians 2:20

I am crucified with Christ - In the previous verse, Paul had said that he was dead. In this verse he states what he meant by it, and shows that he did not wish to be understood as saying that he was inactive, or that he was literally insensible to the appeals made to him by other beings and objects. In respect to one thing he was dead; to all that was truly great and noble he was alive. To understand the remarkable phrase, “I am crucified with Christ,” we may remark:(1) That this was the way in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate the grace of God - The word rendered “frustrate” (ἀθετῶ athetō) means properly to displace, abrogate, abolish; then to make void, to render null; Mark 7:9; Luke 7:30; 1 Corinthians 1:19. The phrase “the grace of God,” here refers to the favor of God manifested in the plan of salvation by the gospel, and is another name for the gospel. The sense is, that Paul would not take any measures or pursue any course that would render that vain or inefficacious. Neither by his own... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:19-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 2:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Galatians 2:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Galatians 2:21

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