1Do
you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to men who know the law--that the law
has authority over a man only as long as he lives? 2For example, by
law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her
husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. 3So then, if
she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an
adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an
adulteress, even though she marries another man.
4So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of
Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead,
in order that we might bear fruit to God. 5For when we were
controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the
law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. 6
But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so
that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the
written code. 7What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly
not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I
would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not
covet."[2]
8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,
produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.
9Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin
sprang to life and I died. 10I found that the very commandment that
was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11For sin, seizing
the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the
commandment put me to death. 12So then, the law is holy, and the
commandment is holy, righteous and good. 13 Did that which is good,
then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized
as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the
commandment sin might become utterly sinful. 14We know that the law
is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do
not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I
do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is
good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin
living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my
sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I
cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do;
no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do
what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in
me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right
there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law;
23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war
against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work
within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me
from this body of death?
1 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?
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 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.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 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.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 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.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 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.
1 an ignoratis fratres scientibus enim legem loquor quia lex in homine dominatur quanto tempore vivit
2 nam quae sub viro est mulier vivente viro alligata est legi si autem mortuus fuerit vir soluta est a lege viri
3 igitur vivente viro vocabitur adultera si fuerit cum alio viro si autem mortuus fuerit vir eius liberata est a lege ut non sit adultera si fuerit cum alio viro
4 itaque fratres mei et vos mortificati estis legi per corpus Christi ut sitis alterius qui ex mortuis resurrexit ut fructificaremus Deo
5 cum enim essemus in carne passiones peccatorum quae per legem erant operabantur in membris nostris ut fructificarent morti
6 nunc autem soluti sumus a lege morientes in quo detinebamur ita ut serviamus in novitate spiritus et non in vetustate litterae
7 quid ergo dicemus lex peccatum est absit sed peccatum non cognovi nisi per legem nam concupiscentiam nesciebam nisi lex diceret non concupisces
8 occasione autem accepta peccatum per mandatum operatum est in me omnem concupiscentiam sine lege enim peccatum mortuum erat
9 ego autem vivebam sine lege aliquando sed cum venisset mandatum peccatum revixit
10 ego autem mortuus sum et inventum est mihi mandatum quod erat ad vitam hoc esse ad mortem
11 nam peccatum occasione accepta per mandatum seduxit me et per illud occidit
12 itaque lex quidem sancta et mandatum sanctum et iustum et bonum
13 quod ergo bonum est mihi factum est mors absit sed peccatum ut appareat peccatum per bonum mihi operatum est mortem ut fiat supra modum peccans peccatum per mandatum
14 scimus enim quod lex spiritalis est ego autem carnalis sum venundatus sub peccato
15 quod enim operor non intellego non enim quod volo hoc ago sed quod odi illud facio
16 si autem quod nolo illud facio consentio legi quoniam bona
17 nunc autem iam non ego operor illud sed quod habitat in me peccatum
18 scio enim quia non habitat in me hoc est in carne mea bonum nam velle adiacet mihi perficere autem bonum non invenio
19 non enim quod volo bonum hoc facio sed quod nolo malum hoc ago
20 si autem quod nolo illud facio non ego operor illud sed quod habitat in me peccatum
21 invenio igitur legem volenti mihi facere bonum quoniam mihi malum adiacet
22 condelector enim legi Dei secundum interiorem hominem
23 video autem aliam legem in membris meis repugnantem legi mentis meae et captivantem me in lege peccati quae est in membris meis
24 infelix ego homo quis me liberabit de corpore mortis huius
25 gratia Dei per Iesum Christum
Dominum nostrum igitur ego ipse mente servio legi Dei carne autem legi peccati