Thank you, God my father, that you work in me, both to will and to work for your good pleasure. By the works of the law no one is justified, but by God’s grace I died to the law so that I might live to God.  I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

What God has begun in me with his spirit, he will finish in me by his spirit. The righteous live by faith. Jesus, the Christ, redeemed me from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for me, so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to me, so that I would receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.  For in Christ Jesus, I am a son of God through faith. I was baptized into Christ. I have put on Christ. I am one with Christ.