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Romans 7
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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
Rimljanima 7
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Rimljanima 7
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Brak kao primjer
7 Braćo i sestre, vi poznajete Zakon. Vi, dakle, znate da je čovjek podložan Zakonu samo dok je živ. 2 Na primjer, udana je žena po Zakonu vezana za svoga muža do kraja njegovog života, ali ako muž umre, ona više nije podložna bračnom zakonu. 3 Ako se žena uda za drugoga muškarca dok je njezin muž živ, po Zakonu je kriva za preljub. No ako joj muž umre, ona je slobodna od bračnog zakona pa tako ne čini preljub ako se uda za drugoga čovjeka.
4 Braćo i sestre, vaš je stari čovjek umro za Zakon jer ste bili združeni s razapetim Kristom. Tako smo sada vezani za drugoga čovjeka, za onoga koji je ustao iz smrti, da bismo donijeli plodove Bogu. 5 Prije, dok smo živjeli starim životom, nama su vladale grešne strasti koje je izazvao Zakon. One su nam donosile duhovnu smrt. 6 Sada više nismo podložni Zakonu jer je naš stari život, zarobljen Zakonom, umro. Sad služimo Bogu na nov način Duha, a ne na stari način pisanih pravila.
Naša borba protiv grijeha
7 Što da kažemo? Znači li to da je Zakon isto što i grijeh? Naravno da ne! Ali ja ne bih znao što je grijeh da nije bilo Zakona. Na primjer, ne bih znao što znači željeti nešto što pripada drugome da u Zakonu ne piše: »Nemoj žudjeti za onim što pripada drugome.«[a] 8 Grijeh je iskoristio priliku i tom zapovijedi izazvao u meni sve moguće nedolične želje jer grijeh bez Zakona nema nikakve snage. 9 To je bilo vrijeme u kojem sam živio bez Zakona. Ali kada sam saznao za zapovijed Zakona, tada je grijeh počeo živjeti, 10 a ja sam umro. Zapovijed, koja mi je trebala donijeti život, donijela mi je smrt. 11 Grijeh je iskoristio priliku i prevario me. Iskoristio je zapovijed i ubio me njome.
12 Zakon je svet, a isto su tako i zapovijedi u njemu svete, pravedne i dobre. 13 Znači li to da mi je dobra stvar donijela smrt? Naravno da ne! Ali grijeh, da bi se pokazao grijehom, iskoristio je dobru stvar da bi mi prouzročio smrt. To pokazuje kako je grijeh loš—pomoću dobre zapovijedi može proizvesti još gori ishod.
Sukob u čovjeku
14 Znamo da je Zakon duhovan. No ja nisam duhovan i podložan sam grijehu kao njegov rob. 15 Ne razumijem što činim jer ne radim stvari koje želim, nego stvari koje mrzim. 16 Ako radim stvari koje ne želim, znači da se slažem da je Zakon dobar. 17 Zapravo, nisam ja taj koji radi te stvari, nego ih radi grijeh što živi u meni. 18 Da, znam da u meni, odnosno u mojoj tjelesnoj naravi, ne živi ništa dobro. Želja da radim dobro živi u meni, ali ne i sposobnost da činim dobro. 19 Ne činim dobro koje želim, nego činim zlo koje ne želim. 20 Ako činim zlo, a to ne želim, očito to ne činim ja, nego grijeh koji živi u meni.
21 Otkrio sam da djeluje ovaj zakon: kad želim činiti ono što je dobro, zlo je odmah tu. 22 U svome sam srcu oduševljen Božjim zakonom, 23 ali vidim da u mojem tijelu djeluje drugi zakon. On se suprotstavlja zakonu koji je u mom umu i ja postajem zarobljenik toga zakona grijeha koji djeluje u mojem tijelu. 24 Kako sam jadan! Tko će me spasiti od ovoga tijela koje je predodređeno za smrt? 25 Hvala Bogu za spasenje po našem Gospodinu Isusu Kristu!
U umu se, dakle, pokoravam Božjem zakonu, ali tjelesna narav čini da se pokoravam zakonu grijeha.
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.
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