Romanos 7

N-ta chic quix ʼatiw che we qui ya iwib puʼab i Jesucrísto

1 Yix, ix wachalal, lic iwetaʼam wach cu ʼan i ʼatbal tzij chi ʼo pakawi. Iwetaʼam yix, i ʼatbal tzij ʼo puwi jun winak are cʼaslic. 2 Cu bij i ʼatbal tzij chi jun ixok ʼo puʼab i rachijil are je cʼaslic, xui-ri, we xcam i rachijil, i ixok n-ta chic ʼatbal tzij puwi re i cʼulanquil. 3 Tzʼakat cʼas i rachijil, we i ixok ca qʼuiji ruʼ jun chic achi, ʼo ʼuri u mac chuwach i ʼatbal tzij re i cʼulanquil. Xui-ri, we xcam i rachijil, i ixok n-ta chic re i ʼatbal tzij-le che; n-tu mac ʼuri we xcʼuli chic ruʼ jun chic achi. 4 Queje yix ile, ix wachalal, ix re chic i Crísto. Ix camnak chic chuwach i ujer ʼatbal tzij. N-ta chic quix ʼatiw che we qui ya iwib che jun chic, man i ujer ʼatbal tzij n-ta chic re chiwe. Woʼor ix re chic i Crísto chi xwalijsax che i camic. Queje ile xoʼon i Dios chake, man caka ʼan ni ʼutz ruʼ ka cʼaslemal, ocsabal re u ʼij i Dios. 5 Tzʼakat are oj ʼo te che i ujer nojbal, i ujer ʼatbal tzij xa xoʼon chake chi mas xka rayij u wach i n-ʼus taj. Ile xoʼon ʼuri chake chi oj camnak teʼek chuwach i Dios.

6 Woʼor oj elnak chic puʼab i ʼatbal tzij man pacha oj camnak chic chuwach. I ʼatbal tzij chi tzʼibtal rumal i mam Moises n-ta chic pakawi. Are i u Tewal i Dios ʼo puwi i ka cʼaslemal cʼacʼ.
7 Mok ʼo jun cu bij: “I ʼatbal tzij n-ʼus taj, man caka ʼan ka mac rumal,” cu bij. ¡N-queje ta ile! Katzij, yin ujer, niʼpa i quin ʼano, n-wetaʼam ti yin we mac atzalal quin ʼano; xui-ri are xwetamaj wach i cu bij i ʼatbal tzij, teʼuri xwetamaj chi n-ʼus ta quin ʼano. Por ejémplo, yin ujer n-wetaʼam taj we n-ʼus taj quin rayij wach ʼo ruʼ in loʼcʼanij. N-wetaʼam taj, cʼa xin ta na wach cu bij i ʼatbal tzij tzʼibtalic; cu bij chi n-ʼus taj ca rayij u wach niʼpa tak i n-awe taj. 8 Teʼuri xeʼel chwe yin, chi i mac atzalal xu ya u chac i ʼatbal tzij tzʼibtalic. Xoʼon chwe chi ronojel i n-ʼus taj, ʼis xin rayij u ʼonquil. Queje ile xoʼon chwe, man ma tiji ʼatbal tzij tzʼibtalic, n-queje tene caketamaj-i u wach i mac atzalal. 9 Oʼonom li ujer, are n-wetaʼam ti usucʼ i ʼatbal tzij, toʼ in cʼaslic. Péro xoʼon panok, xwetamaj wach cu bij i ʼatbal tzij, teʼuri i mac atzalal pin cʼux xcʼun sak chuwach. Teʼuri xin naʼo chi in camnak. 10 I ʼatbal tzij-le, Dios xu ya chake, yabal re ka cʼaslemal. Péro xeʼel chuwi in ʼab yin, re i camic.

11 Are xwetamaj wach cu bij i ʼatbal tzij-le, i mac atzalal pin cʼux xu coj u choʼab chwe, xin u tʼoro, y xin u camsaj rumal i ʼatbal tzij.
12 I ʼatbal tzij-le, n-mal taj, lic re i Dios. U tzij u pixab i Dios, lic ʼutz, lic chom, lic sucʼulic.

13 ¿Xataba are i ʼutz laj ʼatbal tzij-le chi xpetsaw i camic pinwi? Lic n-are taj. Are in mac yin are xa ʼanaw ile chwe; queje ile xu ʼalijinsaj chi i mac atzalal lic re itzel. Xin u camsaj ruʼ jun ʼutz; xin u camsaj ruʼ i ʼatbal tzij. Rumal-i, ʼalaj chi lic mal i mac atzalal.

Are i n-cwaj taj, are i quin ʼano

20 Bay, are quin ʼan i mac-le chi n-cwaj taj, n-kas ti yin ʼuri quin ʼanawic. Xa are i mac atzalal ʼo pin nojbal are i ca ʼanawic.
21 Are i ca tijin chu ʼanic chwe are iri: are cwaj quin ʼan i ʼutz, quin na u be chi xui i mal ʼo pin nojbal. 22 Pin cʼux yin, lic cwaj u ʼatbal tzij i Dios;

23 xui-ri, quin na u be chi ʼo pin chʼacul chi ca ʼatiwic wach i craj in cʼux, ile are i u choʼab i mac atzalal; y in ximtal rumal.
24 Toʼ in wach yin. I u rayijbal in chʼacul toʼ cu petsaj ni camic pinwi. ¿Pachin quin tow ruʼ? 25 Xui i Dios quin u to ruʼ, rumal i Kajwal Jesucrísto, ¡cʼamori che i Dios! Woʼor quin ta u be chi in cʼux cu coj u ʼij i ʼatbal tzij re i Dios, péro in chʼacul cu ya rib puʼab i mac atzalal.

Romans 7

1 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—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.

3 So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. 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 through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.5 For when we were controlled by our sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.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 actually brought death.11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

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 to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.18 I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. 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.

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.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.