1 Paul talked to friends who know rules. He said rules lead a person while he lives. ⏳ 2 Paul said a wife is under her husband by rules while he lives. If he dies, she is free from that rule. ✂️ 3 So if the husband lives and she goes to another man, it is wrong. ❌ But if he dies, she is free, and she can marry another man. ✅ 4 Paul said, You are like that too. You died to old rules by Jesus. ✝️ Now you belong to Jesus. You can grow good fruit for God. 5 When we lived in our old way, bad wants were strong in our bodies. They made us do bad things. 6 But now we are free from the old rules. ️ We serve God in a new way, by God's Holy Spirit, not by old words on a page. ✨ 7 Is the rule bad? No. ❌ The rule shows what sin is. ✅ The rule said, “Do not want what is not yours.” Then I knew that was sin. 8 But sin used the rule to wake up many bad wants in me. Without rules, sin felt quiet. 9 I once felt alive when I did not know the rule. But when the rule came, sin woke up, and I felt dead inside. ☠️ 10 The rule was meant to bring life. But sin used the rule to bring death to me. ⚰️ 11 Sin tricked me by the rule. Sin used the rule and hit me hard. 12 So the rule is holy and good. ✨ The rule is right. 13 Did the good rule make me die? No. ❌ Sin did that, so we can see sin is very bad. Sin used the good rule and brought death. ⚠️ 14 We know the rule is from God. But I am weak. I am like a slave to sin. ⛓️ 15 I do not get what I do. I do not do the good I want. ❌ I do the bad I hate. 16 If I do what I do not want, I agree the rule is good. ✅ 17 So it is not really me who does it, but sin living in me. ️ 18 I know nothing good lives in my old self, in my body. I want to do good, but I cannot make it happen. 19 I do not do the good I want to do. I keep doing the bad I do not want. 20 If I do what I do not want, it is not the real me. It is sin living in me. 21 So I see this: when I want to do good, bad is right there with me. ⚖️ 22 Inside, I like God’s rules. 23 But I see another bad rule in my body. vs It fights me and makes me its slave to sin. ⚔️⛓️ 24 Oh! I feel so sad and tired. Who will save me from this body that ends in death? 25 Thank You, God! Jesus Christ saves me. ✝️ So with my mind I serve God’s rules, but my body still wants sin. ❤️ vs ⚠️