Romans 7:5-8

⁵At first we didn’t believe in Jesus, and our boss was that bad part of us that makes us go wrong. That law told us not to do bad things, but this made us think about those bad things, and we did them anyway. So we had to die.

⁶But now it is like we are dead with Jesus and we don’t have to do anything that old law says any more. And we are alive again too, with the Holy Spirit in us. We live to do whatever God tells us to do.

⁷Some people might reckon the old law is no good because it made us go wrong, but that’s not true. It is like this. The law shows me the things that are wrong. For example, one part of that law says, “Don’t think about getting something for yourself if it belongs to somebody else.” Before I ever knew that law I didn’t ever think like that.

⁸But after I heard that law, then I started to think that bad way. You see, if I don’t ever hear that law I will not go wrong like that.