Romans

以婚姻关系为例

1弟兄们，我现在对明白律法的人说，你们岂不晓得律法管人是在活着的时候吗？

2就如女人有了丈夫，丈夫还活着，就被律法约束；丈夫若死了，就脱离了丈夫的律法。

3所以丈夫活着，她若归于别人，便叫淫妇；丈夫若死了，她就脱离了丈夫的律法，虽然归于别人，也不是淫妇。

4我的弟兄们，这样说来，你们借着基督的身体，在律法上也是死了，叫你们归于别人，就是归于那从死里复活的，叫我们结果子给 神。

5因为我们属肉体的时候，那因律法而生的恶欲就在我们肢体中发动，以致结成死亡的果子。

6但我们既然在捆我们的律法上死了，现今就脱离了律法，叫我们服事主，要按着心灵的新样，不按着仪文的旧样。

内在的罪

7这样，我们可说什么呢？律法是罪吗？断乎不是！只是非因律法，我就不知何为罪。非律法说「不可起贪心」，我就不知何为贪心。

8然而，罪趁着机会，就借着诫命叫诸般的贪心在我里头发动；因为没有律法，罪是死的。

9我以前没有律法是活着的；但是诫命来到，罪又活了，我就死了。

10那本来叫人活的诫命，反倒叫我死；

11因为罪趁着机会，就借着诫命引诱我，并且杀了我。

12这样看来，律法是圣洁的，诫命也是圣洁、公义、良善的。

13既然如此，那良善的是叫我死吗？断乎不是！叫我死的乃是罪。但罪借着那良善的叫我死，就显出真是罪，叫罪因着诫命更显出是恶极了。

14我们原晓得律法是属乎灵的，但我是属乎肉体的，是已经卖给罪了。

15因为我所做的，我自己不明白；我所愿意的，我并不做；我所恨恶的，我倒去做。

16若我所做的，是我所不愿意的，我就应承律法是善的。

17既是这样，就不是我做的，乃是住在我里头的罪做的。

18我也知道，在我里头，就是我肉体之中，没有良善。因为，立志为善由得我，只是行出来由不得我。

19故此，我所愿意的善，我反不做；我所不愿意的恶，我倒去做。

20若我去做所不愿意做的，就不是我做的，乃是住在我里头的罪做的。

21我觉得有个律，就是我愿意为善的时候，便有恶与我同在。

22因为按着我里面的意思，我是喜欢 神的律；

23但我觉得肢体中另有个律和我心中的律交战，把我掳去，叫我附从那肢体中犯罪的律。

24我真是苦啊！谁能救我脱离这取死的身体呢？

25感谢 神，靠着我们的主耶稣基督就能脱离了。这样看来，我以内心顺服 神的律，我肉体却顺服罪的律了。

1Are ye ignorant, brethren — for to those knowing law I speak — that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

2for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

3so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

4So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

5for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

6and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

7What, then, shall we say? the law [is] sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

8'Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness — for apart from law sin is dead.

9And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

10and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;

11for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];

12so that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

13That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

14for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

15for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

16And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that [it is] good,

17and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

18for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

19for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.

20And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

21I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

22for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

23and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that [is] in my members.

24A wretched man I [am]! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

25I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.