Galatians 2:20 (KJV): meaning and how to memorise it

What Galatians 2:20 says

Paul says that he is crucified with Christ. Now Christ lives in him, and he lives by faith in the Son of God, who loved him and gave himself for him.

Galatians 2:20 in context

¹⁷But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. ¹⁸For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. ¹⁹For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. ²⁰I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. ²¹I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Galatians 2, verses 17–21. Read the whole chapter with John Brown’s notes in the Self-Interpreting Bible.

Galatians 2:20 in the catechisms

The Reformation catechisms and confessions cite Galatians 2:20 3 times as a proof text.

WCF 14.2
By this faith a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the authority of God himself speaking therein; and acteth differently upon that which…
HC 21
What is true faith?
HC 90
What is the coming to life of the new nature?

How to memorise Galatians 2:20

Hearers breaks the verse into clauses and teaches each clause in four steps. Then it brings each clause back just before you forget it.

01
Read
Read the verse with the clauses marked. Listen to it read aloud.
02
Trace
Type the first letter of each word, with the words shown faintly.
03
Fade
Half of the words go. Type the text again, and fill the gaps from memory.
04
Recall
All the words go. Type it or say it aloud. Each clause gets its own grade and its own review date.