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Romans 7:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

My friends, you understand enough about law to know that laws only have power over people who are alive.

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Ezra, use the wisdom God has given you and choose officials and leaders to govern the people of Western Province. These leaders should know God's laws and have them taught to anyone who doesn't know them.

The Law of the Lord is a lamp, and its teachings shine brightly. Correction and self-control will lead you through life.

My friends, I want you to know that I have often planned to come for a visit. But something has always kept me from doing it. I want to win followers to Christ in Rome, as I have done in many other places.

Dear friends, my greatest wish and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.

But Christ makes the Law no longer necessary for those who become acceptable to God by faith.

Don't let sin keep ruling your lives. You are ruled by God's kindness and not by the Law.

Don't you know that all who share in Christ Jesus by being baptized also share in his death?

But the Law no longer rules over us. We are like dead people, and it cannot have any power over us. Now we can serve God in a new way by obeying his Spirit, and not in the old way by obeying the written Law.

I would gladly be placed under God's curse and be separated from Christ for the good of my own people.

I am not saying this on my own authority. The Law of Moses tells us not to muzzle an ox when it is grinding grain. But was God concerned only about an ox?

Some of you would like to be under the rule of the Law of Moses. But do you know what the Law says?




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