Study it in the app“and it is no longer I who live, but the Messiah lives in me; and what I now live in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.”
Paul: crucified with the Messiah, he no longer lives, but the Messiah lives in himThe CrossPaul lives trusting the Son of God who loved himFaithPaul: I no longer live, Christ lives in mePurposePaul: it is no longer I who live, but the Messiah lives in meFollowing Jesus
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live
To have life in the body, or receive it again after dying.
Where else “zō” appearsMessiah
Messiah: literally "anointed", the king or envoy God consecrates with oil. It is a title, not a surname; in Hebrew, mashiach.
Where else “Christos” appearsflesh
The soft part of the body, of people or animals; also the body itself.
Where else “sarki” appearstrust
Truly trusting in God or in Jesus.
Where else “pistei” appearsSon
Jesus, the Son of God.
Where else “huiou” appearsGod
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theou” appearslove
Love: to seek the good of the other, even of someone who does not deserve it.
Where else “agapēsantos” appearshand over
To put something or someone into another's hands.
Where else “paradontos” appears“In the faith of the Son of God”: it can be understood as the faith placed in him or, as in 2:16, the faithfulness of the Son of God. Some manuscripts read “of God and of the Messiah.”
19For I, through the law, died to the law, so that I might live to God. With the Messiah I have been crucified;
20 · This verse (above)
21I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then the Messiah died for nothing.
