14-16 I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary.

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14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual,(A) sold(B) as a slave to sin.(C) 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.(D) 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.(E)

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Konflikten inom oss

14 Lagen är från Gud och är god. Det är inte det som är problemet, utan problemet finns hos mig, för jag är såld till slaveri med synden som min herre.

15 Jag förstår inte alls mig själv, för jag vill verkligen göra vad som är rätt, men jag kan det inte. Jag gör inte det jag vill göra, utan det jag hatar.

16 Jag vet att det som jag gör är orätt, och mitt dåliga samvete bevisar att jag godkänner de lagar jag bryter.

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14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, (A)sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. (B)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.

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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.

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