¹⁷ This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

²⁰ My old self has been crucified with Christ.^[a] It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

³ For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.