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Свободны от Закона

Братья, я обращаюсь к вам как к знающим Закон; разве вы не знаете, что Закон имеет силу над человеком, пока человек жив? Замужняя женщина, например, связана законом о браке со своим мужем, пока он жив. Если же муж умрёт, она освобождается от этого закона. И поэтому, если она выходит замуж за другого, когда её муж ещё жив, она тем самым нарушает супружескую верность, но если её муж умер, то она свободна от закона и не может быть обвинена в супружеской измене, выйдя замуж за другого.

Также и с вами, братья мои. Вы умерли для Закона через смерть Масеха в теле, чтобы вам принадлежать Другому, Тому, Кто был воскрешён из мёртвых, и приносить плод Всевышнему. Когда мы жили сообразно своей грешной природе, то Закон пробуждал в нас греховные желания, действовавшие в членах нашего тела, и плодом их была смерть. Сейчас же, когда мы умерли для того, что когда-то нас связывало, мы были освобождены от Закона, чтобы служить Всевышнему по-новому, с помощью Святого Духа,[a] а не как раньше – по букве Закона.

Закон и грех

Что же это значит? Что Закон – это грех? Конечно нет. Однако я бы и не знал, что такое грех, если бы не существовал Закон. Я бы не знал, что значит желать, если бы Закон не говорил: «Не пожелай»[b]. Грех, найдя предлог в этом повелении, породил во мне всевозможные желания, но без Закона грех мёртв. Я[c] когда-то жил, не зная Закона, но когда я узнал повеление Всевышнего, грех во мне ожил, 10 а я умер. Оказалось, что повеление, которое должно было принести жизнь, принесло смерть. 11 Потому что грех, используя само повеление, обманул меня и привёл к духовной смерти! 12 Но Закон святой, и повеление также святое, справедливое и хорошее.

13 Так что же, хорошее принесло мне смерть? Нет! Но чтобы грех мог проявить себя как грех, он, действуя через хорошее, произвёл во мне смерть. И, таким образом, через повеление, мы смогли яснее увидеть насколько ужасен грех.

Внутренняя борьба

14 Мы знаем, что Закон духовен. Я же телесен, продан в рабство греху. 15 Я и сам не понимаю, что делаю. То, что я хочу, я не делаю, а вместо этого делаю то, что ненавижу. 16 И если я делаю то, чего не хочу, то я тем самым соглашаюсь, что сам Закон хорош. 17 Ведь это уже делаю не я сам, а грех, который живёт во мне. 18 Я знаю, что во мне, в моей греховной природе, нет ничего хорошего, потому что я хочу делать добро, но не могу. 19 И то, что я делаю, – это не то добро, которое я хотел бы делать. Я продолжаю делать зло, которого не хочу делать. 20 Итак, если я делаю то, чего не хочу, то это уже не я делаю, а живущий во мне грех.

21 Я обнаружил, что здесь действует такой закон: когда я хочу делать добро, то зло уже тут как тут. 22 Внутренне я радуюсь Закону Всевышнего, 23 но в моём теле действует другой закон. Этот закон ведёт войну против закона моего разума и делает меня пленником закона греха, который действует в членах моего тела. 24 Несчастный я человек! Кто бы избавил меня от этого тела смерти? 25 Но благодарение Всевышнему, Который сделал это через Исо Масеха, нашего Повелителя!

Итак, моим разумом я служу Закону Всевышнего, а телом я раб закону греха.

Footnotes

  1. Рим 7:6 Или: «в обновлённом духе».
  2. Рим 7:7 Исх. 20:17; Втор. 5:21.
  3. Рим 7:9 Я – большинство толкователей верит в то, что здесь и далее Павлус говорит о себе и своём жизненном опыте, но здесь также возможен намёк на Адама, или народ Исроила, или даже на любого человека, включая и ныне живущих.

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

Don’t you realize, brothers and sisters, that laws have power over people only as long as they are alive? (I’m speaking to people who are familiar with Moses’ Teachings.) For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, that marriage law is no longer in effect for her. So if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she will be called an adulterer. But if her husband dies, she is free from this law, so she is not committing adultery if she marries another man.

In the same way, brothers and sisters, you have died to the laws in Moses’ Teachings through Christ’s body. You belong to someone else, the one who was brought back to life.

As a result, we can do what God wants. While we were living under the influence of our corrupt nature, sinful passions were at work throughout our bodies. Stirred up by the laws in Moses’ Teachings, our sinful passions did things that result in death. But now we have died to those laws that bound us. God has broken their effect on us so that we are serving in a new spiritual way, not in an old way dictated by written words.

Moses’ Laws Show What Sin Is

What should we say, then? Are the laws in Moses’ Teachings sinful? That’s unthinkable! In fact, I wouldn’t have recognized sin if those laws hadn’t shown it to me. For example, I wouldn’t have known that some desires are sinful if Moses’ Teachings hadn’t said, “Never have wrong desires.” But sin took the opportunity provided by this commandment and made me have all kinds of wrong desires. Clearly, without laws sin is dead. At one time I was alive without any laws. But when this commandment came, sin became alive 10 and I died. I found that the commandment which was intended to bring me life actually brought me death. 11 Sin, taking the opportunity provided by this commandment, deceived me and then killed me.

12 So the laws in Moses’ Teachings are holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good. 13 Now, did something good cause my death? That’s unthinkable! Rather, my death was caused by sin so that sin would be recognized for what it is. Through a commandment sin became more sinful than ever.

God’s Standards Are at War with Sin’s Standards

14 I know that God’s standards in Moses’ Teachings are spiritual, but I have a corrupt nature, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I don’t realize what I’m doing. I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate. 16 I don’t do what I want to do, but I agree that God’s standards are good. 17 So I am no longer the one who is doing the things I hate, but sin that lives in me is doing them.

18 I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don’t do it. 19 I don’t do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I don’t want to do. 20 Now, when I do what I don’t want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it. Sin that lives in me is doing it.

21 So I’ve discovered this truth: Evil is present with me even when I want to do what God’s standards say is good. 22 I take pleasure in God’s standards in my inner being. 23 However, I see a different standard at work throughout my body. It is at war with the standards my mind sets and tries to take me captive to sin’s standards which still exist throughout my body. 24 What a miserable person I am! Who will rescue me from my dying body? 25 I thank God that our Lord Yeshua Christ rescues me! So I am obedient to God’s standards with my mind, but I am obedient to sin’s standards with my corrupt nature.

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.