Because of the law [customs], I [Apostle Paul] died as far as the law is concerned.  I died so that I might live for God. {20} I have been crucified with Christ [the Anointed One].  I don’t live any longer.  Christ lives in me.  My faith in the Son of God [Jesus Christ] helps me to live my life in my body.  He loved me.  He gave [deliver something to another to keep] himself for me.
New International Reader’s Version

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One way that we have been crucified with Christ is by relationship: we have become one with Christ, and His experiences are ours.  Our Christian life began when, in unity with Him, we died to our old life.  In our daily life, we must regularly crucify sinful desires that keep us from following Christ.  This, too, is a kind of dying with Him.