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Romans 7:10-21

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10so I have to die. That law鈥檚 job was to show me how I can live, but all it did was this, it told me, 鈥淵ou will die.鈥
11That bad part of me used the law to trick me so that I did bad things, and now I know that I will die.
12But that law itself is really good. It tells us to do things that are right and good.
13But if that law is good, will that good thing make me die? No way. It was like this 鈥 the law showed me what is right and what is wrong, and after I knew this, that bad part of me used that law to tell me that I鈥檝e got to die. So that law does this. It shows us that it is really bad to go wrong and to do bad things.
14The problem is not the law, it is me. We know this. A long time ago God told Moses to write down that law, so there is nothing wrong with the law. But there is something wrong with me. I鈥檓 just a normal human. I keep going wrong. There is a bad part of me inside me that is my boss and I have to do everything that this boss tells me to do.
15I don鈥檛 understand it. I want to do good things. But I can鈥檛 do those good things that I want to do. What I do are the things that I hate.
16I know that I want to be better, and this shows that, really, I reckon the law is good.
17So, really, it鈥檚 not me that does those bad things. It鈥檚 that bad part of me that is inside me.
18I know that I can鈥檛 do anything good by myself. I want to do the right thing but I can鈥檛.
19I keep trying to do good things, but I can鈥檛. No, I keep doing the bad things I don鈥檛 want to do.
20That proves it. It鈥檚 not me that does those bad things. It鈥檚 that bad part inside me that does those bad things.
21This is what happens. It is like another law. Every time I try to do something good, that bad part of me wants to take control and make me go wrong.

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