رِسالَةُ بولُسَ الرَّسول إلَى أهلِ روميَةَ 6
الموت عن الخطية والحياة في المسيح
1 فماذا نَقولُ؟ أنَبقَى في الخَطيَّةِ لكَيْ تكثُرَ النِّعمَةُ؟ 2 حاشا! نَحنُ الّذينَ مُتنا عن الخَطيَّةِ، كيفَ نَعيشُ بَعدُ فيها؟ 3 أم تجهَلونَ أنَّنا كُلَّ مَنِ اعتَمَدَ ليَسوعَ المَسيحِ اعتَمَدنا لموتِهِ، 4 فدُفِنّا معهُ بالمَعموديَّةِ للموتِ، حتَّى كما أُقيمَ المَسيحُ مِنَ الأمواتِ، بمَجدِ الآبِ، هكذا نَسلُكُ نَحنُ أيضًا في جِدَّةِ الحياةِ؟ 5 لأنَّهُ إنْ كُنّا قد صِرنا مُتَّحِدينَ معهُ بشِبهِ موتِهِ، نَصيرُ أيضًا بقيامَتِهِ. 6 عالِمينَ هذا: أنَّ إنسانَنا العتِيقَ قد صُلِبَ معهُ ليُبطَلَ جَسَدُ الخَطيَّةِ، كيْ لا نَعودَ نُستَعبَدُ أيضًا للخَطيَّةِ. 7 لأنَّ الّذي ماتَ قد تبَرّأَ مِنَ الخَطيَّةِ. 8 فإنْ كُنّا قد مُتنا مع المَسيحِ، نؤمِنُ أنَّنا سنَحيا أيضًا معهُ. 9 عالِمينَ أنَّ المَسيحَ بَعدَما أُقيمَ مِنَ الأمواتِ لا يَموتُ أيضًا. لا يَسودُ علَيهِ الموتُ بَعدُ. 10 لأنَّ الموتَ الّذي ماتَهُ قد ماتَهُ للخَطيَّةِ مَرَّةً واحِدَةً، والحياةُ الّتي يَحياها فيَحياها للهِ. 11 كذلكَ أنتُمْ أيضًا احسِبوا أنفُسَكُمْ أمواتًا عن الخَطيَّةِ، ولكن أحياءً للهِ بالمَسيحِ يَسوعَ رَبِّنا. 12 إذًا لا تملِكَنَّ الخَطيَّةُ في جَسَدِكُمُ المائتِ لكَيْ تُطيعوها في شَهَواتِهِ، 13 ولا تُقَدِّموا أعضاءَكُمْ آلاتِ إثمٍ للخَطيَّةِ، بل قَدِّموا ذَواتِكُمْ للهِ كأحياءٍ مِنَ الأمواتِ وأعضاءَكُمْ آلاتِ برٍّ للهِ.
14 فإنَّ الخَطيَّةَ لن تسودَكُمْ، لأنَّكُمْ لَستُمْ تحتَ النّاموسِ بل تحتَ النِّعمَةِ.عبيد للبر
15 فماذا إذًا؟ أنُخطِئُ لأنَّنا لَسنا تحتَ النّاموسِ بل تحتَ النِّعمَةِ؟ حاشا! 16 ألَستُمْ تعلَمونَ أنَّ الّذي تُقَدِّمونَ ذَواتِكُمْ لهُ عَبيدًا للطّاعَةِ، أنتُمْ عَبيدٌ للّذي تُطيعونَهُ: إمّا للخَطيَّةِ للموتِ أو للطّاعَةِ للبِرِّ؟ 17 فشُكرًا للهِ، أنَّكُمْ كنتُم عَبيدًا للخَطيَّةِ، ولكنكُمْ أطَعتُمْ مِنَ القَلبِ صورَةَ التَّعليمِ الّتي تسَلَّمتُموها. 18 وإذ أُعتِقتُمْ مِنَ الخَطيَّةِ صِرتُمْ عَبيدًا للبِرِّ. 19 أتَكلَّمُ إنسانيًّا مِنْ أجلِ ضَعفِ جَسَدِكُمْ. لأنَّهُ كما قَدَّمتُمْ أعضاءَكُمْ عَبيدًا للنَّجاسَةِ والإثمِ للإثمِ، هكذا الآنَ قَدِّموا أعضاءَكُمْ عَبيدًا للبِرِّ للقَداسَةِ. 20 لأنَّكُمْ لَمّا كنتُم عَبيدَ الخَطيَّةِ، كنتُم أحرارًا مِنَ البِرِّ. 21 فأيُّ ثَمَرٍ كانَ لكُمْ حينَئذٍ مِنَ الأُمورِ الّتي تستَحونَ بها الآنَ؟ لأنَّ نِهايَةَ تِلكَ الأُمورِ هي الموتُ. 22 وأمّا الآنَ إذ أُعتِقتُمْ مِنَ الخَطيَّةِ، وصِرتُمْ عَبيدًا للهِ، فلكُمْ ثَمَرُكُمْ للقَداسَةِ، والنِّهايَةُ حياةٌ أبديَّةٌ. 23 لأنَّ أُجرَةَ الخَطيَّةِ هي موتٌ، وأمّا هِبَةُ اللهِ فهي حياةٌ أبديَّةٌ بالمَسيحِ يَسوعَ رَبِّنا.
Romans 6
The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination
1 What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.t
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.t6 We know thatt our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us,t so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)s
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.9 We knowt that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to diet again; death no longer has mastery over him.10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 So you too consider yourselvess dead to sin, butt alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,13 and do not present your members to sin as instrumentst to be used for unrighteousness,t but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instrumentst to be used for righteousness.
14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!16 Do you not know that if you present yourselvest as obedient slaves,t you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?t17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyedt from the heart that patternt of teaching you were entrusted to,18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.)ts For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
21 So what benefitt did you then reapt from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.22 But now, freedt from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefitt leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
23 For the payofft of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.