羅馬書 7

脫離律法的約束歸屬基督

1 弟兄們，我對懂得律法的人說，你們不曉得律法管轄人，是在他活著的期間嗎？2 一個已婚的婦人，在丈夫活著的時候，她是受律法約束歸屬丈夫；丈夫若死了，她就脫離丈夫在律法上的約束。3 所以，當丈夫還活著的時候，如果她歸屬別的男人，就稱為淫婦；丈夫若死了，她就脫離了律法的約束，如果她歸屬別的男人，也不是淫婦。4 這樣，我的弟兄們，你們藉著基督的身體，對律法來說也已經死了，使你們歸屬另一位，就是那從死人中復活的，為的是要我們結果子給　神。5 我們從前屬肉體的時候，罪惡的情慾藉著律法在我們的肢體裡發動，就結出死亡的果子。

6 但現在，我們既然向那捆綁我們的律法死了，就脫離了律法的約束，好讓我們用心靈的新樣子，而不用儀文的舊方式來服事主。
善惡兩律在心中交戰
7 這樣，我們可以說甚麼呢？難道律法是罪嗎？絕對不是。不過，如果不是藉著律法，我就不知道甚麼是罪；如果不是律法說“不可貪心”，我就不知道甚麼是貪心。8 但罪趁著機會，藉著誡命在我裡面發動各樣的貪心，因為沒有律法，罪是死的。9 在沒有律法的時候，我是活的；但誡命一來，罪就活了，我就死了。10 那本來使人活的誡命，反而使我死了；11 因為罪藉著誡命把握著機會來欺騙我，並且殺了我。

12 這樣，律法是聖潔的，誡命也是聖潔、公義和良善的。
13 既是這樣，那良善的反而使我死嗎？絕對不是！但罪藉著那良善的使我死，就顯出真是罪，為了要使罪藉著誡命變成更加邪惡。14 我們知道律法是屬靈的，我卻是屬肉體的，已經賣給罪了。15 因為我所作的，我不明白；我所願意的，我沒有去作，我所恨惡的，我倒去作。16 如果我所不願意的，我倒去作，我就不得不承認律法是好的。17 既是這樣，那就不是我作的，而是住在我裡面的罪作的。18 我知道在我裡面，就是在我肉體之中，沒有良善，因為立志行善由得我，行出來卻由不得我。19 所以我願意行的善，我沒有去行；我不願意作的惡，我倒去作了。20 我若作自己不願意作的事，那就不是我作的，而是住在我裡面的罪作的。21 因此，我發現了一個律，就是我想向善的時候，惡就在我裡面出現。22 按著我裡面的人來說，我是喜歡　神的律，23 但我發覺肢體中另有一個律，和我心中的律爭戰，把我擄去附從肢體中的罪律。24 我這個人真是苦啊！誰能救我脫離這使我死亡的身體呢？

25 感謝　神，藉著我們的主耶穌基督就能脫離了。可見，一方面我自己心裡服事　神的律，另一方面我的肉體卻服事罪的律。

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.