Galatians 2:20

The sentence contradicts itself on purpose and does not resolve the contradiction. It is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith.

So: I do not live, and I live. Paul lets both stand in consecutive clauses, and the tension is the accurate part. Anyone who has been changed by something knows the difficulty of describing it. You are recognisably the same person. You are not operating on the same basis.

I have been crucified with Christ is in a Greek tense that describes a past action with continuing effect. Not I am crucified daily, and not I was, once. Something happened, and its consequences are still the current situation.

Then the last clause, which is where the verse becomes personal rather than doctrinal. Who loved me, and gave himself up for me. Paul has been arguing a fierce public case against Peter about law and grace, and he finishes it in the singular. Not loved us. Me.

That shift is not sentimentality; it is the point of the argument. The whole dispute was about whether something general — a code, a practice, an ethnic marker — could be added to something that had been done personally. Paul's answer is to name the personal thing and stop.