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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? 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。 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。 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。 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; 但我们既然在捆我们的律法上死了,现今就脱离了律法,叫我们服侍主,要按着心灵[a]的新样,不按着仪文的旧样。

律法使人知罪

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。 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。 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。

良心与情欲交战

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[b],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。

Footnotes

  1. 罗马书 7:6 “心灵”或作“圣灵”。
  2. 罗马书 7:22 原文作:人。

婚姻关系的例子

弟兄姊妹,我现在对那些熟悉律法的人说:你们难道不知道律法只在人活着的时候管辖人吗? 比方说,一个妇人结了婚,只要丈夫还在世,她就受律法的约束要与丈夫在一起。如果丈夫死了,她就脱离了与丈夫的婚姻关系。 丈夫还活着的时候,她若与别的男人发生性关系,便算淫妇。丈夫若死了,她就脱离了与丈夫的婚姻关系,即使改嫁,也不是淫妇。

我的弟兄姊妹,同样,你们借着基督的身体向着律法也死了,使你们可以归于那位从死里复活的基督,好为上帝结果子。 从前我们受自己罪恶本性[a]的控制,因律法而激发的罪恶欲望在我们身上发作,以致结出死亡的果子。 但现在,我们既然向着一度捆绑我们的律法死了,就脱离了律法的控制,能够以圣灵所赐的新样式,而不是以拘守教条的旧样式事奉上帝。

律法使人知罪

那么,我们可以说律法本身是罪吗?当然不是!没有律法,我们就不知道什么是罪。律法若不说“不可贪心”,我就不知道什么是贪心。 然而,罪却趁机利用诫命在我里面生出各种贪念,因为没有律法,罪是死的。 我没认识律法之前是活的,但律法来了之后,罪就活了,而我却死了。 10 我发现那本来要使人活的诫命反而叫我死, 11 因为罪利用诫命趁机引诱我,而且借着诫命杀了我。

12 其实律法是圣洁的,诫命也是圣洁、公义、良善的。 13 既然如此,难道是良善的诫命叫我死吗?当然不是!是罪借着良善的诫命叫我死。这样,罪借着诫命叫我死就显出它实在是邪恶至极!

善恶相争

14 我们知道律法是属灵的,我却属乎肉体,已经卖给罪做奴隶了。 15 我不明白自己的所作所为,因为我想做的,我做不到;而我憎恨的恶事,我偏偏去做! 16 既然我不想做的,我反倒去做,我就得承认律法是好的。 17 其实那并不是我做的,而是住在我里面的罪做的。 18 我也知道,在我的罪恶本性里面毫无良善,我有行善的心愿,却没有行善的力量。 19 我想行善,却不能行;我不想作恶,反倒去作。 20 如果我不想做的,我反倒去做,这就不是我自己做的,而是住在我里面的罪做的。

21 因此,我发现一个律:我想行善的时候,恶就不放过我。 22 按着我里面的意思[b],我喜爱上帝的律。 23 然而,我发觉在我身体内另有一个律和我心中的律作战,将我俘虏,使我服从身体内犯罪的律。 24 我真是苦啊!谁能救我脱离这个被死亡控制的身体呢? 25 感谢上帝,祂借着我们的主耶稣基督救了我!这样看来,我的内心服从上帝的律法,但我罪恶的本性却服从犯罪的律。

Footnotes

  1. 7:5 罪恶本性”希腊文是“肉体”,以下皆用相同译法。
  2. 7:22 里面的意思”希腊文是“里面的人”。

Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

Do you not know, brothers and sisters(A)—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? For 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 that binds her to him.(B) So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.(C) But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law(D) through the body of Christ,(E) that you might belong to another,(F) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a](G) the sinful passions aroused by the law(H) were at work in us,(I) so that we bore fruit for death.(J) But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law(K) so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.(L)

The Law and Sin

What shall we say, then?(M) Is the law sinful? Certainly not!(N) Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.(O) For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[b](P) But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(Q) produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.(R) Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life(S) actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(T) deceived me,(U) and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.(V)

13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good(W) to bring about my death,(X) so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual,(Y) sold(Z) as a slave to sin.(AA) 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.(AB) 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.(AC) 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.(AD) 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c](AE) For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.(AF) 20 Now 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.(AG)

21 So I find this law at work:(AH) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being(AI) I delight in God’s law;(AJ) 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war(AK) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin(AL) at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(AM) 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(AN)

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,(AO) but in my sinful nature[d] a slave to the law of sin.(AP)

Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  2. Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
  3. Romans 7:18 Or my flesh
  4. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh

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?

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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.