Romans Chapter 7
Listen up, fam, you gotta know that the law's got its grip on folks as long as they’re alive, for real.
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
A lady's gotta roll with her man while he’s alive, but if he passes away, she’s free from that law, no cap.
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to {her} husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of {her} husband.
So if she’s with another guy while her dude’s still alive, that’s hella sus, but once he’s gone, she’s good and not an adulteress, fr.
So then if, while {her} husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
So, my crew, you’ve died to the law through Christ's energy; now you're tied to Him who came back, so we can vibe and produce fruits for God.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, {even} to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
When we were rolling in the flesh, our sins were wild, working through us to bring about death vibes.
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. {motions: Gr. passions}
But now we’re liberated from the law, dead to what dragged us down; we’re serving with fresh spirit, not stuck in the old game, no cap.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not {in} the oldness of the letter. {that being...: or, being dead to that}
So what’s popping? Is the law the villain? Nah, fam. I wouldn’t even realize what sin was without the law saying not to covet, bet.
What shall we say then? {Is} the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. {lust: or, concupiscence}
But sin used the commandment to clown on me with all sorts of desires. Without the law, sin was non-existent, for real.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin {was} dead.
I was cruising without the law at one point, but when the commandment hit, sin came back, and I was toast.
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
The command meant to bring life ended up being all about death for me, fr.
And the commandment, which {was ordained} to life, I found {to be} unto death.
Sin played me using the commandment and took me down, savage.
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.
So yeah, the law is legit holy, and the command is goated, just and solid vibes.
Wherefore the law {is} holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Did the good stuff bring death to me? Nah, fam. It's sin showing off by bringing death through what’s good, making it super sus.
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
We know the law is spiritual, but I’m just a hot mess, sold out to sin.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
I don’t even do what I wanna do; I end up doing what I can’t stand, no cap.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. {allow: Gr. know}
If I’m doing what I don’t wanna do, I’m kinda admitting the law's legit, periodt.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that {it is} good.
So it’s not really me doing it, it’s the sin chilling inside me.
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I know there’s nothing solid in me (like, in my flesh), I wanna do good, but I can’t figure out how to pull it off, fr.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but {how} to perform that which is good I find not.
The good things I wanna do? Nah, don’t do 'em; but the bad things I don’t want? That’s what I end up doing, no cap.
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
If I’m doing what I don’t want, it’s not me, it’s the sin inside, for real.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I discovered this law: whenever I wanna do good, evil’s right there next to me, sus.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
I’m all for the law of God in my inner self, vibes.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
But there’s another law in my body, fighting against my mind, taking me captive to the sin vibes in my flesh.
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Ugh, what a trainwreck I am! Who’s gonna save me from this death trap?
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? {the body...: or, this body of death}
I give thanks to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So with my mind, I’m serving the law of God, but my flesh is all about that sin law.
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.