Romans 7:9

First Nations Version

I once lived my life not knowing the law, but when I heard the law’s instructions, my broken ways came to life and I died.

Cross References

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 8:7

For the thoughts of our weak human minds are against the ways of the Great Spirit. These thoughts will not and cannot surrender to Creator’s law.

Galatians 2:19

It was through our tribal law that I died to our tribal law, so that I could be set free to live for the Great Spirit. When the Chosen One died on the cross, I died with him.

Romans 10:5

Here is what the lawgiver Drawn from the Water (Moses) has written down about finding good standing by following the law: “The man who seeks good standing through the law must find it by keeping the law all the days of his life.”

Romans 7:11

But it was my broken ways of thinking that tricked me and turned the law’s instructions into a temptation that ended up bringing death to me.

Romans 7:6

But now that we have died, we have been released from the law that kept us bound. We now walk in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of a law carved in stone and written with ink on paper.

Romans 7:4

So my sacred family members, when the Chosen One died in his human body, you died with him. This death released you from our tribal law, so you could join with the one who has been raised from the dead. So now our lives can bear much fruit for the Great Spirit.

Luke 18:21

“Wisdomkeeper,” the man answered, “from my youth I have followed all of these instructions.”

Luke 15:29

“The older son said to his father, ‘Why can you not see? I have worked hard for you all my life, and done all that you have asked of me, but you have not even given me one small goat to have a feast with my friends.

Matthew 19:20

“Wisdomkeeper,” the man answered, “from my youth I have followed all of these instructions. What have I left undone?”

Romans 7:8

But my broken ways of thinking turned the law’s instruction into a temptation that created in me all kinds of wrong desires. For if there were no law, then the temptation to walk in broken ways would not be awakened.

Romans 7:10

So the law’s instructions, which were supposed to give me life, instead brought death to me.