17 If, then, as we try to be put right with God by our union with Christ, we are found to be sinners as much as the Gentiles are — does this mean that Christ is serving the cause of sin? By no means!
18 If I start to rebuild the system of Law that I tore down, then I show myself to be someone who breaks the Law.
19 So far as the Law is concerned, however, I am dead — killed by the Law itself — in order that I might live for God. I have been put to death with Christ on his cross,
20 so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.
21 I refuse to reject the grace of God. But if a person is put right with God through the Law, it means that Christ died for nothing!