17. But if while seeking to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also have been found to be sinners, then is Christ an agent of sin? May it never be!
18. For if I build up again these things which I destroyed, I show myself to be a transgressor.
19. For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,
20. and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
21. I do not declare invalid the grace of God, for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.