14我們知道律法是屬靈的，我卻屬乎肉體，已經賣給罪做奴隸了。15我不明白自己的所作所為，因為我想做的，我做不到；而我憎恨的惡事，我偏偏去做！16既然我不想做的，我反倒去做，我就得承認律法是好的。17其實那並不是我做的，而是住在我裡面的罪做的。18我也知道，在我的罪惡本性裡面毫無良善，我有行善的心願，卻沒有行善的力量。19我想行善，卻不能行；我不想作惡，反倒去作。20如果我不想做的，我反倒去做，這就不是我自己做的，而是住在我裡面的罪做的。21因此，我發現一個律：我想行善的時候，惡就不放過我。22按著我裡面的意思*，我喜愛上帝的律。23然而，我發覺在我身體內另有一個律和我心中的律作戰，將我俘虜，使我服從身體內犯罪的律。24我真是苦啊！誰能救我脫離這個被死亡控制的身體呢？25感謝上帝，祂藉著我們的主耶穌基督救了我！這樣看來，我的內心服從上帝的律法，但我罪惡的本性卻服從犯罪的律。
English Standard Version
Released from the Law
1Or do you not know, brothers*—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?2For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.*3Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.4Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.5For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.6But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.*
The Law and Sin
7What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”8But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.9I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.10The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.11For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.12So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.13Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.15For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.16Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.17So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.19For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.21So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.22For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,23but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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