رِسالَةُ بولُسَ الرَّسول إلَى أهلِ روميَةَ 7

المؤمن والناموس

1 أم تجهَلونَ أيُّها الإخوَةُ -لأنّي أُكلِّمُ العارِفينَ بالنّاموسِ- أنَّ النّاموسَ يَسودُ علَى الإنسانِ ما دامَ حَيًّا؟ 2 فإنَّ المَرأةَ الّتي تحتَ رَجُلٍ هي مُرتَبِطَةٌ بالنّاموسِ بالرَّجُلِ الحَيِّ. ولكن إنْ ماتَ الرَّجُلُ فقد تحَرَّرَتْ مِنْ ناموسِ الرَّجُلِ. 3 فإذًا ما دامَ الرَّجُلُ حَيًّا تُدعَى زانيَةً إنْ صارَتْ لرَجُلٍ آخَرَ. ولكن إنْ ماتَ الرَّجُلُ فهي حُرَّةٌ مِنَ النّاموسِ، حتَّى إنَّها لَيسَتْ زانيَةً إنْ صارَتْ لرَجُلٍ آخَرَ. 4 إذًا يا إخوَتي أنتُمْ أيضًا قد مُتُّمْ للنّاموسِ بجَسَدِ المَسيحِ، لكَيْ تصيروا لآخَرَ، للّذي قد أُقيمَ مِنَ الأمواتِ لنُثمِرَ للهِ. 5 لأنَّهُ لَمّا كُنّا في الجَسَدِ كانتْ أهواءُ الخطايا الّتي بالنّاموسِ تعمَلُ في أعضائنا، لكَيْ نُثمِرَ للموتِ.

6 وأمّا الآنَ فقد تحَرَّرنا مِنَ النّاموسِ، إذ ماتَ الّذي كُنّا مُمسَكينَ فيهِ، حتَّى نَعبُدَ بجِدَّةِ الرّوحِ لا بعِتقِ الحَرفِ.

الصراع ضد الخطية

13 فهل صارَ لي الصّالِحُ موتًا؟ حاشا! بل الخَطيَّةُ. لكَيْ تظهَرَ خَطيَّةً مُنشِئَةً لي بالصّالِحِ موتًا، لكَيْ تصيرَ الخَطيَّةُ خاطِئَةً جِدًّا بالوَصيَّةِ.
14 فإنَّنا نَعلَمُ أنَّ النّاموسَ روحيٌّ، وأمّا أنا فجَسَديٌّ مَبيعٌ تحتَ الخَطيَّةِ. 15 لأنّي لَستُ أعرِفُ ما أنا أفعَلُهُ، إذ لَستُ أفعَلُ ما أُريدُهُ، بل ما أُبغِضُهُ فإيّاهُ أفعَلُ. 16 فإنْ كُنتُ أفعَلُ ما لَستُ أُريدُهُ، فإنّي أُصادِقُ النّاموسَ أنَّهُ حَسَنٌ. 17 فالآنَ لَستُ بَعدُ أفعَلُ ذلكَ أنا، بل الخَطيَّةُ السّاكِنَةُ فيَّ. 18 فإنّي أعلَمُ أنَّهُ ليس ساكِنٌ فيَّ، أيْ في جَسَدي، شَيءٌ صالِحٌ. لأنَّ الإرادَةَ حاضِرَةٌ عِندي، وأمّا أنْ أفعَلَ الحُسنَى فلَستُ أجِدُ. 19 لأنّي لَستُ أفعَلُ الصّالِحَ الّذي أُريدُهُ، بل الشَّرَّ الّذي لَستُ أُريدُهُ فإيّاهُ أفعَلُ. 20 فإنْ كُنتُ ما لَستُ أُريدُهُ إيّاهُ أفعَلُ، فلَستُ بَعدُ أفعَلُهُ أنا، بل الخَطيَّةُ السّاكِنَةُ فيَّ. 21 إذًا أجِدُ النّاموسَ لي حينَما أُريدُ أنْ أفعَلَ الحُسنَى أنَّ الشَّرَّ حاضِرٌ عِندي. 22 فإنّي أُسَرُّ بناموسِ اللهِ بحَسَبِ الإنسانِ الباطِنِ. 23 ولكني أرَى ناموسًا آخَرَ في أعضائي يُحارِبُ ناموسَ ذِهني، ويَسبيني إلَى ناموسِ الخَطيَّةِ الكائنِ في أعضائي. 24 ويحي أنا الإنسانُ الشَّقيُّ! مَنْ يُنقِذُني مِنْ جَسَدِ هذا الموتِ؟ 25 أشكُرُ اللهَ بيَسوعَ المَسيحِ رَبِّنا! إذًا أنا نَفسي بذِهني أخدِمُ ناموسَ اللهِ، ولكن بالجَسَدِ ناموسَ الخَطيَّةِ.

Romans 7

The Believer’s Relationship to the Law

1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisterst (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a persons as long as he lives?2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if hert husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.ts3 So then,t if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if hert husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.4 So, my brothers and sisters,t you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.t5 For when we were in the flesh,t the sinful desires,t aroused by the law, were active in the members of our bodyt to bear fruit for death.

6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have diedt to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.t
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, Is would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone elset if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”s8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires.t For apart from the law, sin is dead.9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive10 and I died. Sot I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!t11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.t

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? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.14 For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.t15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate.t16 But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.t17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.t19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
21 So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

25 Thanks bes to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then,t I myself serve the law of God with my mind, butt with my flesh I servet the law of sin.