罗马书 7
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
脫離律法的約束歸屬基督
7 弟兄們,我對懂得律法的人說,你們不曉得律法管轄人,是在他活著的期間嗎? 2 一個已婚的婦人,在丈夫活著的時候,她是受律法約束歸屬丈夫;丈夫若死了,她就脫離丈夫在律法上的約束。 3 所以,當丈夫還活著的時候,如果她歸屬別的男人,就稱為淫婦;丈夫若死了,她就脫離了律法的約束,如果她歸屬別的男人,也不是淫婦。 4 這樣,我的弟兄們,你們藉著基督的身體,對律法來說也已經死了,使你們歸屬另一位,就是那從死人中復活的,為的是要我們結果子給 神。 5 我們從前屬肉體的時候,罪惡的情慾藉著律法在我們的肢體裡發動,就結出死亡的果子。 6 但現在,我們既然向那捆綁我們的律法死了,就脫離了律法的約束,好讓我們用心靈的新樣子,而不用儀文的舊方式來服事主。
善惡兩律在心中交戰
7 這樣,我們可以說甚麼呢?難道律法是罪嗎?絕對不是。不過,如果不是藉著律法,我就不知道甚麼是罪;如果不是律法說“不可貪心”,我就不知道甚麼是貪心。 8 但罪趁著機會,藉著誡命在我裡面發動各樣的貪心,因為沒有律法,罪是死的。 9 在沒有律法的時候,我是活的;但誡命一來,罪就活了,我就死了。 10 那本來使人活的誡命,反而使我死了; 11 因為罪藉著誡命把握著機會來欺騙我,並且殺了我。 12 這樣,律法是聖潔的,誡命也是聖潔、公義和良善的。
13 既是這樣,那良善的反而使我死嗎?絕對不是!但罪藉著那良善的使我死,就顯出真是罪,為了要使罪藉著誡命變成更加邪惡。 14 我們知道律法是屬靈的,我卻是屬肉體的,已經賣給罪了。 15 因為我所作的,我不明白;我所願意的,我沒有去作,我所恨惡的,我倒去作。 16 如果我所不願意的,我倒去作,我就不得不承認律法是好的。 17 既是這樣,那就不是我作的,而是住在我裡面的罪作的。 18 我知道在我裡面,就是在我肉體之中,沒有良善,因為立志行善由得我,行出來卻由不得我。 19 所以我願意行的善,我沒有去行;我不願意作的惡,我倒去作了。 20 我若作自己不願意作的事,那就不是我作的,而是住在我裡面的罪作的。 21 因此,我發現了一個律,就是我想向善的時候,惡就在我裡面出現。 22 按著我裡面的人來說,我是喜歡 神的律, 23 但我發覺肢體中另有一個律,和我心中的律爭戰,把我擄去附從肢體中的罪律。 24 我這個人真是苦啊!誰能救我脫離這使我死亡的身體呢? 25 感謝 神,藉著我們的主耶穌基督就能脫離了。可見,一方面我自己心裡服事 神的律,另一方面我的肉體卻服事罪的律。
羅馬書 7
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
婚姻關係的例子
7 弟兄姊妹,我現在對那些熟悉律法的人說:你們難道不知道律法只在人活著的時候管轄人嗎? 2 比方說,一個婦人結了婚,只要丈夫還在世,她就受律法的約束要與丈夫在一起。如果丈夫死了,她就脫離了與丈夫的婚姻關係。 3 丈夫還活著的時候,她若與別的男人發生性關係,便算淫婦。丈夫若死了,她就脫離了與丈夫的婚姻關係,即使改嫁,也不是淫婦。
4 我的弟兄姊妹,同樣,你們藉著基督的身體向著律法也死了,使你們可以歸於那位從死裡復活的基督,好為上帝結果子。 5 從前我們受自己罪惡本性[a]的控制,因律法而激發的罪惡慾望在我們身上發作,以致結出死亡的果子。 6 但現在,我們既然向著一度捆綁我們的律法死了,就脫離了律法的控制,能夠以聖靈所賜的新樣式,而不是以拘守教條的舊樣式事奉上帝。
律法使人知罪
7 那麼,我們可以說律法本身是罪嗎?當然不是!沒有律法,我們就不知道什麼是罪。律法若不說「不可貪心」,我就不知道什麼是貪心。 8 然而,罪卻趁機利用誡命在我裡面生出各種貪念,因為沒有律法,罪是死的。 9 我沒認識律法之前是活的,但律法來了之後,罪就活了,而我卻死了。 10 我發現那本來要使人活的誡命反而叫我死, 11 因為罪利用誡命趁機引誘我,而且藉著誡命殺了我。
12 其實律法是聖潔的,誡命也是聖潔、公義、良善的。 13 既然如此,難道是良善的誡命叫我死嗎?當然不是!是罪藉著良善的誡命叫我死。這樣,罪藉著誡命叫我死就顯出它實在是邪惡至極!
善惡相爭
14 我們知道律法是屬靈的,我卻屬乎肉體,已經賣給罪做奴隸了。 15 我不明白自己的所作所為,因為我想做的,我做不到;而我憎恨的惡事,我偏偏去做! 16 既然我不想做的,我反倒去做,我就得承認律法是好的。 17 其實那並不是我做的,而是住在我裡面的罪做的。 18 我也知道,在我的罪惡本性裡面毫無良善,我有行善的心願,卻沒有行善的力量。 19 我想行善,卻不能行;我不想作惡,反倒去作。 20 如果我不想做的,我反倒去做,這就不是我自己做的,而是住在我裡面的罪做的。
21 因此,我發現一個律:我想行善的時候,惡就不放過我。 22 按著我裡面的意思[b],我喜愛上帝的律。 23 然而,我發覺在我身體內另有一個律和我心中的律作戰,將我俘虜,使我服從身體內犯罪的律。 24 我真是苦啊!誰能救我脫離這個被死亡控制的身體呢? 25 感謝上帝,祂藉著我們的主耶穌基督救了我!這樣看來,我的內心服從上帝的律法,但我罪惡的本性卻服從犯罪的律。
Romans 7
Common English Bible
Freedom from the Law
7 Brothers and sisters, I’m talking to you as people who know the Law. Don’t you know that the Law has power over someone only as long as he or she lives? 2 A married woman is united with her husband under the Law while he is alive. But if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband. 3 So then, if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she’s committing adultery. But if her husband dies, she’s free from the Law, so she won’t be committing adultery if she marries someone else. 4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also died with respect to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you could be united with someone else. You are united with the one who was raised from the dead so that we can bear fruit for God. 5 When we were self-centered, the sinful passions aroused through the Law were at work in all the parts of our body, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the Law. We have died with respect to the thing that controlled us, so that we can be slaves in the new life under the Spirit, not in the old life under the written Law.
The function of the Law
7 So what are we going to say? That the Law is sin? Absolutely not! But I wouldn’t have known sin except through the Law. I wouldn’t have known the desire for what others have if the Law had not said, Don’t desire to take what others have.[a] 8 But sin seized the opportunity and used this commandment to produce all kinds of desires in me. Sin is dead without the Law. 9 I used to be alive without the Law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life, 10 and I died. So the commandment that was intended to give life brought death. 11 Sin seized the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and killed me. 12 So the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
Living under the Law
13 So did something good bring death to me? Absolutely not! But sin caused my death through something good so that sin would be exposed as sin. That way sin would become even more thoroughly sinful through the commandment. 14 We know that the Law is spiritual, but I’m made of flesh and blood, and I’m sold as a slave to sin. 15 I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate. 16 But if I’m doing the thing that I don’t want to do, I’m agreeing that the Law is right. 17 But now I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it’s sin that lives in me. 18 I know that good doesn’t live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it. 19 I don’t do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don’t want to do. 20 But if I do the very thing that I don’t want to do, then I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it is sin that lives in me that is doing it.
21 So I find that, as a rule, when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me. 22 I gladly agree with the Law on the inside, 23 but I see a different law at work in my body. It wages a war against the law of my mind and takes me prisoner with the law of sin that is in my body. 24 I’m a miserable human being. Who will deliver me from this dead corpse? 25 Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I’m a slave to God’s Law in my mind, but I’m a slave to sin’s law in my body.
Footnotes
Romans 7
New International Version
Released From the Law, Bound to Christ
7 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? 2 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) 3 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.
4 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. 5 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) 6 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
7 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) 8 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) 9 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
- 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.
- Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
- Romans 7:18 Or my flesh
- Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh
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