罗马书 7

以婚姻关系为例

1 弟兄们，我现在对明白律法的人说，你们岂不晓得律法管人是在活着的时候吗？ 2 就如女人有了丈夫，丈夫还活着，就被律法约束；丈夫若死了，就脱离了丈夫的律法。 3 所以丈夫活着，她若归于别人，便叫淫妇；丈夫若死了，她就脱离了丈夫的律法，虽然归于别人，也不是淫妇。 4 我的弟兄们，这样说来，你们借着基督的身体，在律法上也是死了，叫你们归于别人，就是归于那从死里复活的，叫我们结果子给　神。 5 因为我们属肉体的时候，那因律法而生的恶欲就在我们肢体中发动，以致结成死亡的果子。 6 但我们既然在捆我们的律法上死了，现今就脱离了律法，叫我们服事主，要按着心灵t的新样，不按着仪文的旧样。

内在的罪

7 这样，我们可说什么呢？律法是罪吗？断乎不是！只是非因律法，我就不知何为罪。非律法说「不可起贪心」，我就不知何为贪心。 8 然而，罪趁着机会，就借着诫命叫诸般的贪心在我里头发动；因为没有律法，罪是死的。 9 我以前没有律法是活着的；但是诫命来到，罪又活了，我就死了。 10 那本来叫人活的诫命，反倒叫我死； 11 因为罪趁着机会，就借着诫命引诱我，并且杀了我。 12 这样看来，律法是圣洁的，诫命也是圣洁、公义、良善的。 13 既然如此，那良善的是叫我死吗？断乎不是！叫我死的乃是罪。但罪借着那良善的叫我死，就显出真是罪，叫罪因着诫命更显出是恶极了。 14 我们原晓得律法是属乎灵的，但我是属乎肉体的，是已经卖给罪了。 15 因为我所做的，我自己不明白；我所愿意的，我并不做；我所恨恶的，我倒去做。 16 若我所做的，是我所不愿意的，我就应承律法是善的。 17 既是这样，就不是我做的，乃是住在我里头的罪做的。 18 我也知道，在我里头，就是我肉体之中，没有良善。因为，立志为善由得我，只是行出来由不得我。 19 故此，我所愿意的善，我反不做；我所不愿意的恶，我倒去做。 20 若我去做所不愿意做的，就不是我做的，乃是住在我里头的罪做的。 21 我觉得有个律，就是我愿意为善的时候，便有恶与我同在。 22 因为按着我里面的意思t，我是喜欢　神的律； 23 但我觉得肢体中另有个律和我心中的律交战，把我掳去，叫我附从那肢体中犯罪的律。 24 我真是苦啊！谁能救我脱离这取死的身体呢？ 25 感谢　神，靠着我们的主耶稣基督就能脱离了。这样看来，我以内心顺服　神的律，我肉体却顺服罪的律了。

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.