رُوما 7

١ 1 أَمْ تَجْهَلُونَ أَيُّهَا ٱلْإِخْوَةُ - لِأَنِّي أُكَلِّمُ ٱلْعَارِفِينَ بِٱلنَّامُوسِ - أَنَّ ٱلنَّامُوسَ يَسُودُ عَلَى ٱلْإِنْسَانِ مَا دَامَ حَيًّا؟

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law, ) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

٢ 2 فَإِنَّ ٱلْمَرْأَةَ ٱلَّتِي تَحْتَ رَجُلٍ هِيَ مُرْتَبِطَةٌ بِٱلنَّامُوسِ بِٱلرَّجُلِ ٱلْحَيِّ. وَلَكِنْ إِنْ مَاتَ ٱلرَّجُلُ فَقَدْ تَحَرَّرَتْ مِنْ نَامُوسِ ٱلرَّجُلِ.

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

٣ 3 فَإِذًا مَا دَامَ ٱلرَّجُلُ حَيًّا تُدْعَى زَانِيَةً إِنْ صَارَتْ لِرَجُلٍ آخَرَ. وَلَكِنْ إِنْ مَاتَ ٱلرَّجُلُ فَهِيَ حُرَّةٌ مِنَ ٱلنَّامُوسِ، حَتَّى إِنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ زَانِيَةً إِنْ صَارَتْ لِرَجُلٍ آخَرَ.

so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

٤ 4 إِذًا يَا إِخْوَتِي أَنْتُمْ أَيْضًا قَدْ مُتُّمْ لِلنَّامُوسِ بِجَسَدِ ٱلْمَسِيحِ، لِكَيْ تَصِيرُوا لِآخَرَ، لِلَّذِي قَدْ أُقِيمَ مِنَ ٱلْأَمْوَاتِ لِنُثْمِرَ لِلهِ.

So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

٥ 5 لِأَنَّهُ لَمَّا كُنَّا فِي ٱلْجَسَدِ كَانَتْ أَهْوَاءُ ٱلْخَطَايَا ٱلَّتِي بِٱلنَّامُوسِ تَعْمَلُ فِي أَعْضَائِنَا، لِكَيْ نُثْمِرَ لِلْمَوْتِ.

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

٦ 6 وَأَمَّا ٱلْآنَ فَقَدْ تَحَرَّرْنَا مِنَ ٱلنَّامُوسِ، إِذْ مَاتَ ٱلَّذِي كُنَّا مُمْسَكِينَ فِيهِ، حَتَّى نَعْبُدَ بِجِدَّةِ ٱلرُّوحِ لَا بِعِتْقِ ٱلْحَرْفِ.

but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

٧ 7 فَمَاذَا نَقُولُ؟ هَلِ ٱلنَّامُوسُ خَطِيَّةٌ؟ حَاشَا! بَلْ لَمْ أَعْرِفِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةَ إِلَّا بِٱلنَّامُوسِ. فَإِنَّنِي لَمْ أَعْرِفِ ٱلشَّهْوَةَ لَوْ لَمْ يَقُلِ ٱلنَّامُوسُ: «لَا تَشْتَهِ».

What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

٨ 8 وَلَكِنَّ ٱلْخَطِيَّةَ وَهِيَ مُتَّخِذَةٌ فُرْصَةً بِٱلْوَصِيَّةِ أَنْشَأَتْ فِيَّ كُلَّ شَهْوَةٍ. لِأَنْ بِدُونِ ٱلنَّامُوسِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ مَيِّتَةٌ.

but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.

٩ 9 أَمَّا أَنَا فَكُنْتُ بِدُونِ ٱلنَّامُوسِ عَائِشًا قَبْلًا. وَلَكِنْ لَمَّا جَاءَتِ ٱلْوَصِيَّةُ عَاشَتِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ، فَمُتُّ أَنَا،

But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.

١٠ 10 فَوُجِدَتِ ٱلْوَصِيَّةُ ٱلَّتِي لِلْحَيَاةِ هِيَ نَفْسُهَا لِي لِلْمَوْتِ.

And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:

١١ 11 لِأَنَّ ٱلْخَطِيَّةَ، وَهِيَ مُتَّخِذَةٌ فُرْصَةً بِٱلْوَصِيَّةِ، خَدَعَتْنِي بِهَا وَقَتَلَتْنِي.

for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

١٢ 12 إِذًا ٱلنَّامُوسُ مُقَدَّسٌ، وَٱلْوَصِيَّةُ مُقَدَّسَةٌ وَعَادِلَةٌ وَصَالِحَةٌ.

So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

١٣ 13 فَهَلْ صَارَ لِي ٱلصَّالِحُ مَوْتًا؟ حَاشَا! بَلِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ. لِكَيْ تَظْهَرَ خَطِيَّةً مُنْشِئَةً لِي بِٱلصَّالِحِ مَوْتًا، لِكَيْ تَصِيرَ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ خَاطِئَةً جِدًّا بِٱلْوَصِيَّةِ.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

١٤ 14 فَإِنَّنَا نَعْلَمُ أَنَّ ٱلنَّامُوسَ رُوحِيٌّ، وَأَمَّا أَنَا فَجَسَدِيٌّ مَبِيعٌ تَحْتَ ٱلْخَطِيَّةِ.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

١٥ 15 لِأَنِّي لَسْتُ أَعْرِفُ مَا أَنَا أَفْعَلُهُ، إِذْ لَسْتُ أَفْعَلُ مَا أُرِيدُهُ، بَلْ مَا أُبْغِضُهُ فَإِيَّاهُ أَفْعَلُ.

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

١٦ 16 فَإِنْ كُنْتُ أَفْعَلُ مَا لَسْتُ أُرِيدُهُ، فَإِنِّي أُصَادِقُ ٱلنَّامُوسَ أَنَّهُ حَسَنٌ.

But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.

١٧ 17 فَٱلْآنَ لَسْتُ بَعْدُ أَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ أَنَا، بَلِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ ٱلسَّاكِنَةُ فِيَّ.

Now then [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

١٨ 18 فَإِنِّي أَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ سَاكِنٌ فِيَّ، أَيْ فِي جَسَدِي، شَيْءٌ صَالِحٌ. لِأَنَّ ٱلْإِرَادَةَ حَاضِرَةٌ عِنْدِي، وَأَمَّا أَنْ أَفْعَلَ ٱلْحُسْنَى فَلَسْتُ أَجِدُ.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.

١٩ 19 لِأَنِّي لَسْتُ أَفْعَلُ ٱلصَّالِحَ ٱلَّذِي أُرِيدُهُ، بَلِ ٱلشَّرَّ ٱلَّذِي لَسْتُ أُرِيدُهُ فَإِيَّاهُ أَفْعَلُ.

For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

٢٠ 20 فَإِنْ كُنْتُ مَا لَسْتُ أُرِيدُهُ إِيَّاهُ أَفْعَلُ، فَلَسْتُ بَعْدُ أَفْعَلُهُ أَنَا، بَلِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ ٱلسَّاكِنَةُ فِيَّ.

But if what I do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

٢١ 21 إِذًا أَجِدُ ٱلنَّامُوسَ لِي حِينَمَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَفْعَلَ ٱلْحُسْنَى أَنَّ ٱلشَّرَّ حَاضِرٌ عِنْدِي.

I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

٢٢ 22 فَإِنِّي أُسَرُّ بِنَامُوسِ ٱللهِ بِحَسَبِ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ ٱلْبَاطِنِ.

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

٢٣ 23 وَلَكِنِّي أَرَى نَامُوسًا آخَرَ فِي أَعْضَائِي يُحَارِبُ نَامُوسَ ذِهْنِي، وَيَسْبِينِي إِلَى نَامُوسِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةِ ٱلْكَائِنِ فِي أَعْضَائِي.

but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.

٢٤ 24 وَيْحِي أَنَا ٱلْإِنْسَانُ ٱلشَّقِيُّ! مَنْ يُنْقِذُنِي مِنْ جَسَدِ هَذَا ٱلْمَوْتِ؟

O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

٢٥ 25 أَشْكُرُ ٱللهَ بِيَسُوعَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ رَبِّنَا! إِذًا أَنَا نَفْسِي بِذِهْنِي أَخْدِمُ نَامُوسَ ٱللهِ، وَلَكِنْ بِٱلْجَسَدِ نَامُوسَ ٱلْخَطِيَّةِ.

I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.