罗马书 7
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
以婚姻为例
7 弟兄们，我现在对明白律法的人说：难道你们不明白，律法只是在一个人活着的时候辖制这个人吗？ 2 要知道，已婚的女人，在丈夫活着的时候，是被律法约束的；但如果丈夫死了，她就脱离了那关于丈夫的律法。 3 由此可见，丈夫还活着的时候，她如果归向别的男人，就被称为淫妇；但如果丈夫死了，她就脱离那律法得了自由，即使归向别的男人，也不是淫妇。
4 因此，我的弟兄们，你们藉着基督的身体，在律法上也被处死了，使你们归向另一位，就是从死人中复活的那一位，好让我们能为神结出果子来。 5 原来，当我们还在肉体中的时候，罪的欲望藉着律法在我们身体的各部分[a]做工，以致为死亡结了果子。 6 但如今，我们既然在那捆绑我们的律法上死了，就脱离了律法，结果我们得以按照圣灵的新样式来服事，而不按照律法条文的旧样式。
罪藉着诫命
7 那么，我们要怎么说呢？难道律法是罪吗？绝对不是！然而，要不是藉着律法，我就不知道什么是罪。如果律法没有说“不可贪心”[b]，我就不知道什么是贪心； 8 但是，罪藉着诫命，趁机在我里面生出种种贪念。原来在律法之外，罪是死的。 9 我从前活在律法之外，但是诫命一来，罪就活起来了， 10 我却死了。于是我发现，那本该带来生命的诫命，它却导致了死亡。 11 事实上，罪藉着诫命趁机欺骗了我，并藉着诫命杀了我。 12 因此，律法是神圣的，诫命也是神圣、公义、美善的。
内在的罪
13 那么，是那美善的导致了我的死吗？[c]绝对不是！而是罪。罪为要显出是罪，就藉着那美善的带来了我的死，使罪藉着诫命变得极其邪恶。 14 我们知道律法是属灵的；而我是属肉体的，已经卖给罪了。 15 实际上，我所做的，我不明白，因为我所愿意的，我没有去做；我所恨恶的，我反而去做。 16 那么，如果我做我不愿意做的事，我就赞同了律法是好的。 17 所以现在这事就不再是我所做的，而是住在我里面的罪所做的。 18 事实上，我知道在我里面，就是在我肉体中，没有良善；因为行善的意愿在我里面，却行不出来。 19 这样，我愿意行的善，我没有去行；我不愿意做的恶，我反而去做。 20 那么，如果我做我不愿意做的事，这事就不再是我所做的，而是住在我里面的罪所做的。 21 因此我发现一个法则：当我愿意行善的时候，恶就在我里面。 22 就是说，按着内在的人，我喜爱神的法则， 23 然而我发现在我身体[d]中另有一个法则，与我理性的法则交战，把我掳到我身体中罪的法则里。 24 我这个人真是可悲呀！谁能救我脱离这属于死亡的身体呢？ 25 藉着我们的主耶稣基督，感谢归于神！[e]由此可见，我自己一方面在理性上服从神的法则，另一方面在肉体中却服从罪的法则。
Romans 7
New King James Version
Freed from the Law
7 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law [a]has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For (A)the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then (B)if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become (C)dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should (D)bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law (E)were at work in our members (F)to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve (G)in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
Sin’s Advantage in the Law
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, (H)I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, (I)“You shall not covet.” 8 But (J)sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For (K)apart from the law sin was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, (L)which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore (M)the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Law Cannot Save from Sin
13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, (N)sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. (O)For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that (P)in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I (Q)delight in the law of God according to (R)the inward man. 23 But (S)I see another law in (T)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 will deliver me (U)from this body of death? 25 (V)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.
Footnotes
- Romans 7:1 rules
Kehillah in Rome 7
Orthodox Jewish Bible
7 Do you not have da’as, Achim b’Moshiach, for I speak to those who know the Torah, that the Torah exercises marut (authority, rule) over a man so long as he lives?
2 For the agunah (woman whose husband’s whereabouts are unknown) is bound by the Torah to her husband while he lives; but in the case that her husband’s death can be confirmed, she is no longer an agunah and is released from the Torah of her husband.
3 Accordingly she will be named no’eh-fet (adulteress) if, while her husband lives, she becomes another man’s. But if her ba’al (husband) dies, she is free from the Torah, so that she is no no’ehfet (adulteress) if she becomes another man’s.
4 So then, Achim b’Moshiach, you also were put to death in relation to the Torah through the basar of Moshiach (TEHILLIM 16:9-10 ), in order that you might become another’s, bound to Moshiach who was given Techiyah (Resurrection) from the Mesim, so that we might bear p’ri for Hashem.
5 For when we were in the basar (in the fallen condition of the old humanity), through the Torah, the ta’avat besarim, the sinful passions (i.e., Chet Kadmon’s yetzer harah of the fallen human condition) were working in our natural capacities, so as to bear p’ri for mavet (death) [cf. Ro 4:15].
6 But now we have become niftar (freed, deceased) from the dominating ownership of the Torah, having died to that by which we were confined, so that we might serve in the Ruach Hakodesh of hitkhadshut and newness and not in the yoshen (oldness) of chumra (legalism, strict adherence to the letter of the law) (Ro 2:29).
7 What then shall we say? That the Torah is considered as chet (sin)? Chas v’shalom! Nevertheless, I would not have experienced chet (sin) except through the Torah; for I would not have known chamdanut (covetousness, greediness) if the Torah had not said, LO TACHMOD ("Thou shalt not covet" SHEMOT 20:17).
8 But Chet (Sin), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh (commandment), stirred up all manner of chamdanut (covetousness) in me. For in the absence of the Torah, Chet (Sin) is dead.
9 And in the absence of the Torah I was once alive. But when the mitzvoh (commandment) came [BERESHIS 2:16-17), Chet (Sin) became alive,
10 and I died. The mitzvoh (commandment) intended as the Derech L’Chayyim (Way to Life) proved for me a means to mavet (death).
11 For Chet (Sin), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh (commandment), deceived me and, through the mitzvoh (commandment), killed me [BERESHIS 3:1-6].
12 So that the Torah is kedoshah (holy) and the mitzvoh (commandment) is kedoshah and yasharah and tovah.
13 Did that which is good, then, become mavet (death) to me? Chas v’shalom! But Chet (Sin), it was Chet, working mavet (death) in me through that which is tovah, in order that Chet might be shown as Chet (Sin), and in order that Chet through the mitzvoh (commandment) might become chata’ah gedolah ad m’od (utterly sinful).
14 For we have da’as that the Torah is Ruchanit (Spiritual, of the Ruach Hakodesh); but I am of the basar (fallen humanity) sold under the power of (slave master Chet Kadmon) Chet.
15 For I do not have da’as what I do. For that which I commit is not what I want; no, it is what I hate that I do!
16 But if that which I do is what I do not want, I agree with the Torah that the Torah is good.
17 But now it is no longer I doing this, but [the power of] Chet (Sin) which dwells within me.
18 For I have da’as that there dwells in me, that is, in my basar (my fallen humanity enslaved to Chet Kadmon) no good thing; for the wish [to do what is right] lies ready at hand for me, but to accomplish the good is not.
19 For I fail to do good as I wish, but HaRah (The Evil) which I do not wish is what I commit.
20 But if what I do not wish is that which I do, it is no longer I doing it but [the power of] Chet (Sin, Chet Kadmon, Original Sin) which dwells within me (cf. Ro 8:7-8).
21 I find then it be a law that for me who wishes to do HaTov (The Good), that for me HaRah (The Evil) lies ready at hand.
22 For I rejoice, I have simcha Torah in the Torah of Hashem, so far as the inner man is concerned,
23 But I see another Chok (decree, law) in my natural capacities at milchamah (war) with the Torah of my mind and making me a prisoner to the Chok (law) of Chet (Sin) which is [a power] in my natural capacities.
24 Wretched man am I! Who will deliver me from the body of this mavet (death)?
25 Hodu l’Hashem (thanks be to G-d) baMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu. So then I myself with my mind serve the Torah of Hashem and with my basar I serve the Chok of Chet (the Law of Sin). [T.N. The total spiritual turnaround here described is when the conviction of the intellect, emotion, and will "obey from the heart the form of doctrine laid out here in Scripture" as we are born anew in the humanity of the new Man and die to the old depraved Adam.]
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