Verse 4
Romans 7:4
Free Bible Version
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In the same way, my friends, you've become dead to the law through the body of Christ, and so now you belong to someone else—Christ, who was raised from the dead so that we could live productive lives for God (Elohim).
Original Language Text
greek
Ὥστε, ἀδελφοί μου, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐθανατώθητε τῷ νόμῳ διὰ τοῦ σώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ, εἰς τὸ γενέσθαι ὑμᾶς ἑτέρῳ, τῷ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγερθέντι ἵνα καρποφορήσωμεν τῷ θεῷ.
English Translation
So, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, in order that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit for God.
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Chapter 7 Context
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Brothers and sisters (I'm speaking here to people who know the law), don't you see that the law has...
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For example, a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he's alive, but if he dies, sh...
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So if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery. Howev...
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4
In the same way, my friends, you've become dead to the law through the body of Christ, and so now yo...
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While we were controlled by old nature, our sinful desires (as revealed by the law) were at work wit...
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But now we've been set free from the law, and have died to what kept us in chains, so that we can se...
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So what do we conclude? That the law is sin? Of course not! I wouldn't have known what sin was unles...
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But through this commandment sin found a way to stir up in me all kinds of selfish desires—for witho...
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9
I used to live without realizing what the law really meant, but when I understood the implications o...
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10
I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life brought death instead,
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because sin found a way through the commandment to deceive me, and used the commandment to kill me!
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12
However, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good.
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Now would something that is good kill me? Of course not! But sin shows itself to be sin by using goo...
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We realize that the law is spiritual; but I'm all-too-human, a slave to sin.
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I really don't understand what I'm doing. I do the things I don't want to do, and what I hate doing,...
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But if I'm saying that I do what I don't want to, this shows that I admit the law is good and right.
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So it's no longer me who does this, but sin living in me—
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for I know that there's nothing good in me as far as my sinful human nature is concerned. Even thoug...
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The good I want to do, I don't do; while the evil I don't want to do, that's what I end up doing!
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20
However, if I'm doing what I don't want to, then it's no longer me doing it, but sin living in me.
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This is the principle I've discovered: if I want to do what's good, evil is always there too.
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22
My inner self is delighted with God (Elohim)'s law,
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but I see a different law at work within me that is at war with the law my mind has decided to follo...
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I'm totally miserable! Who will rescue me from this body that's causing my death? Thank God (Elohim)...
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Here's the situation: while I myself choose with my mind to obey God (Elohim)'s law, my human nature...
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