Evil people have gathered around me.\par They are too many to count!\par My sins have caught me,\par and I can’t escape them.\par They are more than the hairs on my head.\par I have lost my courage.\par
Romans 7:9 - Easy To Read Version I was alive without the law before I knew the law. But when the law’s command came to me, then sin began to live. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Once I was alive, but quite apart from and unconscious of the Law. But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died (was sentenced by the Law to death). [Ps. 73:22.] American Standard Version (1901) And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; Common English Bible I used to be alive without the Law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life, Catholic Public Domain Version Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived, |
Evil people have gathered around me.\par They are too many to count!\par My sins have caught me,\par and I can’t escape them.\par They are more than the hairs on my head.\par I have lost my courage.\par
The young man said, “I have obeyed all these things. What else do I need?”
The son said to his father, ‘I have served you like a slave for many years! I have always obeyed your commands. But you never killed even a goat for me! You never gave a party for me and my friends.
But the leader said, “I have obeyed all these commands since I was a boy!”
Moses writes about being made right by following the law. Moses says, “A person that wants to find life by following these things (the law) must do the things the law says.” {\cf2\super [99]}
And I died \{spiritually\} because of sin. The command was meant to bring life, but for me that command brought death.
Sin found a way to fool me by using the command. Sin used the command to make me die \{spiritually\}.
In the same way, my brothers and sisters, your old selves died and you became free from the law {\cf2\super [52]} through the body of Christ. Now you belong to someone else. You belong to the One (Christ) that was raised from death. We belong to Christ so that we can be used in service to God.
In the past, the law held us like prisoners. But our old selves died and we were made free from the law. So now we serve God in a new way, not in the old way with the written rules. Now we serve God in the new way with the Spirit. {\cf2\super [53]}
And sin found a way to use that command and make me want every kind of wrong thing. So sin came to me because of that command. But without the law, sin has no power.
Why is this true? Because if a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then that person is against God. That person refuses to obey God’s law. And really that person is not able to obey God’s law.
I stopped living for the law. It was the law that killed me. I died to the law so that I can now live for God. I (my old life) was killed on the cross with Christ.
But people who depend on following the law \{to make them right\} are under a curse. Why? Because the Scriptures say, “A person must do all the things that are written in the law. {\cf2\super [28]} If he does not always obey, then that person is under a curse!” {\cf2\super [29]}