Romans 7:8-14

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.

⁹Before I ever heard the law I was alive, but then that law woke that bad part of me up and now it makes me go wrong,

¹⁰so I have to die. That law’s job was to show me how I can live, but all it did was this, it told me, “You will die.”

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 – 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’ve 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’m 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.