Romans 7:5

First Nations Version

For when we walked in our broken human ways, the law stirred up our evil desires, so that we bore fruit for death.

Cross References

Ephesians 2:3

This is how all of us once lived when we followed our uncontrolled emotions fed by bodily desires and dark thoughts. These broken ways became our natural condition, and, like the rest of humankind, we were children deserving of Creator’s anger.

Galatians 5:24

For the ones who belong to Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One have nailed their weak and broken humanity to his cross. This puts to death all their wrong desires and broken ways.

Galatians 3:10

All who seek good standing with Creator through working hard to keep our tribal law are under the law’s curse. For it is written in our Sacred Teachings, “Cursed is anyone who does not perform all that is written down in the book of the law.”

Romans 6:13

So then, you should no longer permit broken ways to use your bodies for wrongdoing. Instead, as people whom the Great Spirit has raised from death to life, offer your bodies to him for doing what is right.

Romans 6:21

But what good came from the things you are now ashamed of? For those things are a sure path to death.

1 John 3:4

All who walk in broken ways are trampling over the law of the Chosen One, for all broken ways go against his law.

Colossians 3:5

So let the death of the Chosen One kill in you all that is of the ways of this world. These are things such as improper sexual desires, spiritual impurity, uncontrolled emotions that lead to wrong desires, evil ways, and always wanting more than you need. These desires come from listening to lying spirits.

1 Corinthians 15:56

For our broken ways give death its sting, and our broken ways give the law its power. But no more!

James 4:1

Where do the wars, fights, and arguments among you come from? Do they not come from the selfish desires that wage war in your own bodies?

James 1:15

When an evil desire takes root in our hearts, it gives birth to broken ways. When these broken ways have taken over, they drag us down a path that leads to death.

Titus 3:3

For it was not that long ago that we were also foolish and misled rebels who let our evil desires rule over us. Some of us were even bad-hearted, jealous troublemakers, hated by others and hating each other.

Ephesians 2:11

You Nations must not forget that before you knew the Chosen One you were not natural-born members of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel). You were called “the outsiders” by the ones who call themselves “the insiders.” But remember, the sign that marks them as insiders is cut into their flesh with human hands.

Romans 7:23

but there is another law, rooted in my humanity, that fights against Creator’s law in my thoughts and makes me a prisoner of the law of broken ways that has taken root in my weak and broken humanity.

Romans 6:23

Following the path of broken ways only earns us death, but Creator’s free gift to us is the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony. This free gift is ours in the Chosen One, who is our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus).

Romans 6:19

I am using weak human words to speak to weak human beings! You used to walk in impure ways and became the slaves of doing wrong, leading to even worse things. So now, in the same way, begin to walk as slaves of doing what is good and right, living life in a sacred manner.

Romans 5:20

Our tribal law stepped in to show us how bad our broken ways had become, and this only made our broken ways grow worse. But the worse our broken ways grew, even stronger grew the gift of Creator’s great kindness.

Romans 4:15

The law produces only anger for those who fail to walk in it. Where there is no law, only a promise, then no one would be failing to keep a law.

Romans 3:20

So then, it should be clear to all that no one can be in good standing in the eyes of the Great Spirit by doing what our tribal law says. What is clear is that the law shows us how bad our hearts have become and how broken our lives truly are.

Romans 1:26

So then, the Great Spirit permitted them to go their own way to dishonor themselves by following these dishonorable desires. Their women traded what was their natural sexual desire for what was not natural.

John 3:6

The human body only gives birth to natural life, but it takes the Spirit of Creator to give birth to spiritual life.

Matthew 15:19

It is from the heart that come things such as the taking of lives, unfaithful marriages, uncontrolled sexual desires, stealing, lying, and speaking against the Great Spirit.

2 Corinthians 10:3

Even though we are walking in weak human bodies, we are not fighting with human strength. We do not make war in the ways of this world.