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Romains 7
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Libérés du régime de la Loi

7 Ne savez-vous pas, frères et sœurs – car je parle à des gens qui savent ce qu’est une loi – que la loi ne régit un homme que durant le temps de sa vie ? 2 Ainsi, une femme mariée est liée par la loi à son mari tant que celui-ci est en vie. Mais s’il vient à mourir, elle est libérée de la loi qui la liait à lui[a]. 3 Donc si, du vivant de son mari, elle devient la femme d’un autre homme, elle sera considérée comme adultère. Mais si son mari meurt, elle est affranchie de cette loi et peut donc appartenir à un autre, sans être adultère.

4 Il en est de même pour vous, mes frères et sœurs : par la mort de Christ, vous êtes, vous aussi, morts par rapport à la Loi, pour appartenir à un autre, à celui qui est ressuscité, pour que nous portions des fruits pour Dieu.

5 Lorsque nous étions encore livrés à nous-mêmes, les mauvais désirs suscités par la Loi étaient à l’œuvre dans nos membres pour nous faire porter des fruits qui mènent à la mort. 6 Mais maintenant, libérés du régime de la Loi, morts à ce qui nous gardait prisonniers, nous pouvons servir Dieu d’une manière nouvelle par l’Esprit, et non plus sous le régime périmé de la lettre de la Loi.

7 Que dire maintenant ? La Loi se confond-elle avec le péché ? Loin de là ! Seulement, s’il n’y avait pas eu la Loi, je n’aurais pas connu le péché, et je n’aurais pas su ce qu’est la convoitise si la Loi n’avait pas dit : Tu ne convoiteras pas[b]. 8 Mais alors le péché, prenant appui sur le commandement, a suscité en moi toutes sortes de désirs mauvais. Car, sans la Loi, le péché est sans vie.

9 Pour ma part, autrefois sans la Loi, je vivais, mais quand le commandement est intervenu, le péché a pris vie, 10 et moi je suis mort. Ainsi, ce qui s’est produit pour moi, c’est que le commandement qui devait conduire à la vie m’a conduit à la mort. 11 Car le péché a pris appui sur le commandement : il m’a trompé et m’a fait mourir en se servant du commandement. 12 Ainsi, la Loi elle-même est sainte, et le commandement est saint, juste et bon.

13 Ce qui est bon est-il devenu pour moi une cause de mort ? Loin de là ! C’est le péché ! En effet, il a provoqué ma mort en se servant de ce qui est bon, et a de la sorte manifesté sa nature de péché et son excessive perversité par le moyen du commandement.

14 Nous savons que la Loi a été inspirée par l’Esprit de Dieu, mais moi, je suis comme un homme livré à lui-même, vendu comme esclave au péché. 15 En effet, je ne comprends pas[c] ce que je fais : je ne fais pas ce que je veux, et c’est ce que je déteste que je fais. 16 Et si je fais ce que je ne veux pas, je reconnais par là que la Loi est bonne.

17 En réalité, ce n’est plus moi qui le fais, mais c’est le péché qui habite en moi. 18 Car je sais que le bien n’habite pas en moi, c’est-à-dire dans ce que je suis par nature[d]. Vouloir le bien est à ma portée, mais non l’accomplir. 19 Je ne fais pas le bien que je veux, mais le mal que je ne veux pas, je le commets. 20 Si donc je fais ce que je ne veux pas, ce n’est plus moi qui le fais mais c’est le péché qui habite en moi.

21 Je découvre ainsi cette loi : lorsque je veux faire le bien, c’est le mal qui est à ma portée. 22 Dans mon être intérieur, je prends plaisir à la Loi de Dieu. 23 Mais je vois bien qu’une autre loi est à l’œuvre dans mon corps : elle combat la Loi qu’approuve ma raison et elle fait de moi le prisonnier de la loi du péché qui agit dans mes membres[e]. 24 Malheureux que je suis ! Qui me délivrera de ce corps voué à la mort[f] ? 25 Dieu soit loué : c’est par Jésus-Christ notre Seigneur[g]. En résumé : moi-même, je suis[h], par la raison, au service de la Loi de Dieu, mais je suis, dans ce que je vis concrètement[i], esclave de la loi du péché.

Footnotes

  1. 7.2 Il s’agit de la loi romaine. Autre traduction : la Loi, c’est-à-dire la Loi de Moïse.
  2. 7.7 Ex 20.17 ; Dt 5.21.
  3. 7.15 Autre traduction : je n’approuve pas.
  4. 7.18 Autre traduction : c’est-à-dire dans ce que je vis ou dans toute la réalité de mon être.
  5. 7.23 D’autres comprennent : qui se trouve dans tout mon être.
  6. 7.24 D’autres comprennent : de cette mort qu’est ma vie ?
  7. 7.25 Voir 1 Co 15.56-57. Autre traduction : Dieu soit loué par Jésus-Christ notre Seigneur.
  8. 7.25 Autre traduction : je suis en même temps.
  9. 7.25 Autres traductions : et par mon corps (en tant qu’instrument du péché), voir v. 23 ; ou : mais je suis, dans ce que je fais ; ou : mais par nature.
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Romans 7
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The authority of the law

7 My Christian friends, you know about laws. You know that we have to obey them. The laws have authority over someone while they are still alive. 2 So think about this. A woman who has a husband must stay with him as long as he still lives. That is what the law says. But if her husband dies, she becomes free from that law about her marriage. 3 While her husband is alive, the law has authority over her. If she goes to live with another man, the law says that she has done something wrong. People will call her an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she becomes free from that law. If she then marries another man, she will not be doing anything wrong.

4 My friends, it is like that for you too. When Christ's body died on the cross, it is as if you also died with him. Because of that, you are no longer under the authority the law. Now you are free to belong to someone else. You belong to Christ, whom God raised up after his death. As a result, we can live in a good way that will please God. 5 In our old lives, we did the bad things that we wanted to do. God's laws brought bad thoughts into our minds. As a result, our bodies did many wrong things. In the end, those bad things lead to death.[a] 6 But now we have become free from the authority of the law. It is as if we have died. So those rules no longer control us. We do not still try to obey rules that someone has written down. That is the old way. Instead, we serve God in a new way. God's Spirit helps us to please him.

God's Law teaches us about sin

7 So someone might say, ‘God's Law must be bad.’ No! Certainly, it is not bad! Without that law, I would not have known what sin really is. One rule says, ‘You must not want to take things for yourself that belong to other people.’[b] Without that command, I would not have known that it is wrong to want other people's things. 8 But the command gave sin a chance to come into my thoughts. As a result, I started to want all kinds of wrong things. If there is no law to tell us what is wrong, then sin has no power to make us guilty.

9 As for me, there was a time when I did not know God's laws. I was living without any law to obey. But when I learned about that command, sin now had power in my life. 10 As a result, I became separate from God, as if I had died.[c] So the command that should have brought life to me brought death instead. 11 That command gave sin a chance to deceive me. It caused me to become separate from God.

12 So we understand that God's Law and its commands are completely good. They are holy, fair and good.

13 But someone might say, ‘This means that something good brought death to you.’ No! God's Law did not do that! It was sin that brought death to me. Sin used God's good Law to show that I was guilty. Because of that, we can see that sin is really very bad. The commands in God's Law help to show that sin is completely bad.

The power of sin in our lives

14 We understand that God's Law is spiritual. But I am weak and human. I am like a slave that has sin as my master. 15 I do not understand the things that I do. I do not do the good things that I want to do. Instead, I do the things that I hate to do. 16 But I do not want to do those wrong things. So I am agreeing that God's Law is good. 17 So it is not really I myself who am doing those wrong things. Instead, sin has power in my life. It is sin that causes me to do wrong things.

18 I know that there is nothing good in me. I am weak and human. I want to do what is good. But I am unable to do it. 19 I do not do the good things that I want to do. Instead, I continue to do the bad things that I do not want to do. 20 So, when I do bad things that I do not want to do, it is not really I myself who do them. It is sin that causes me to do wrong things, because it has power in my life.

21 So I understand what is happening in me. Whenever I want to do something good, I can only choose something bad. 22 Deep inside myself, I really love God's laws. 23 So my mind tells me to obey God's laws. But my body wants to make me do something else. Every part of me fights against what my mind tells me to do. Sin has power over my body so that I am like a prisoner. 24 This makes me very sad! My body is leading me to death. I need someone to make me free from the power of sin over my body. 25 I thank God! He has made me free, because of what Jesus Christ has done.

So with my mind I want to obey God's laws. But, at the same time, I serve sin as my master, because I am weak and human.

Footnotes

  1. 7:5 When Paul talks about death here, he means that people die in their spirits. They have become separate from God and the true life which he gives to believers. See Romans 5:12-14
  2. 7:7 When Paul talks about ‘God's Law’, he means the laws and commands that God gave to Moses for the Israelites to obey. Here, he uses one command as an example. See Exodus 20:17 and Deuteronomy 5:21.
  3. 7:10 Paul understood that he had not obeyed God's Law. He knew that he had become separate from God. He did not have the true life which God gives to believers. See Romans 5:12-14.
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Romans 7
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7 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?

2 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.

3 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.

4 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.

5 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.

6 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.

7 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.

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

9 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.

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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

  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
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