17. But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Of course not!
18. But if I am building up again those things that I tore down, then I show myself to be a transgressor.
19. For through the law I died to the law, that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ;
20. yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.
21. I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.