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Romans 7
New International Version
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
Romans 7
King James Version
Romans 7
King James Version
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.
Romarbrevet 7
Svenska 1917
Romarbrevet 7
Svenska 1917
7 Eller veten I icke, mina bröder -- jag talar ju till sådana som känna lagen -- att lagen råder över en människa för så lång tid som hon lever?
2 Så är ju en gift kvinna genom lag bunden vid sin man, så länge denne lever; men om mannen dör, då är hon löst från den lag som band henne vid mannen.
3 Alltså, om hon giver sig åt en annan man, medan hennes man lever, så kallas hon äktenskapsbryterska; men om mannen dör, då är hon fri ifrån lagen, så att hon icke är äktenskapsbryterska, om hon giver sig åt en annan man.
4 Så haven ock I, mina bröder, genom Kristi kropp blivit dödade från lagen för att tillhöra en annan, nämligen honom som har uppstått från de döda, på det att vi må bära frukt åt Gud.
5 Ty medan vi ännu voro i ett köttsligt väsende, voro de syndiga lustar, som uppväcktes genom lagen, verksamma i våra lemmar till att bära frukt åt döden.
6 Men nu äro vi lösta från lagen, i det att vi hava dött från det varunder vi förr höllos fångna; och så tjäna vi nu i Andens nya väsende, och icke i bokstavens gamla väsende.
7 Vad skola vi då säga? Är lagen synd? Bort det! Men synden skulle jag icke hava lärt känna, om icke genom lagen; ty jag hade icke vetat av begärelsen, om icke lagen hade sagt: »Du skall icke hava begärelse.»
8 Men då nu synden fick tillfälle, uppväckte den genom budordet allt slags begärelse i mig. Ty utan lag är synden död.
9 Jag levde en gång utan lag; men när budordet kom, fick synden liv,
10 och jag hemföll åt döden. Så befanns det att budordet, som var givet till liv, det blev mig till död;
11 ty då synden fick tillfälle, förledde den mig genom budordet och dödade mig genom det.
12 Alltså är visserligen lagen helig, och budordet heligt och rättfärdigt och gott.
13 Har då verkligen det som är gott blivit mig till död? Bort det! Men synden har blivit det, för att så skulle varda uppenbart att den var synd, i det att den genom något som självt var gott drog över mig död; och så skulle synden bliva till övermått syndig, genom budordet.
14 Vi veta ju att lagen är andlig, men jag är av köttslig natur, såld till träl under synden.
15 Ty jag kan icke fatta att jag handlar såsom jag gör; jag gör ju icke vad jag vill, men vad jag hatar, det gör jag.
16 Om jag nu gör det som jag icke vill, så giver jag mitt bifall åt lagen och vidgår att den är god.
17 Så är det nu icke mer jag som gör sådant, utan synden, som bor i mig.
18 Ty jag vet att i mig, det är i mitt kött, bor icke något gott; viljan är väl tillstädes hos mig, men att göra det goda förmår jag icke.
19 Ja, det goda som jag vill gör jag icke; men det onda som jag icke vill, det gör jag.
20 Om jag alltså gör vad jag icke vill, så är det icke mer jag som gör det, utan synden, som bor i mig.
21 Så finner jag nu hos mig, som har viljan att göra det goda, den lagen, att det onda fastmer är tillstädes hos mig.
22 Ty efter min invärtes människa har jag min lust i Guds lag;
23 men i mina lemmar ser jag en annan lag, en som ligger i strid med den lag som är i min håg, en som gör mig till fånge under syndens lag, som är i mina lemmar.
24 Jag arma människa! Vem skall frälsa mig från denna dödens kropp? --
25 Gud vare tack, genom Jesus Kristus, vår Herre! Alltså tjänar jag, sådan jag är i mig själv, visserligen med min håg Guds lag, men med köttet tjänar jag syndens lag.
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Svenska 1917 (SV1917)