رُوما 7

١ 1 أَيَخْفَى عَلَيْكُمْ أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ وَأَنَا أُخَاطِبُ أُنَاساً يَعْرِفُونَ قَوَانِينَ الشَّرِيعَةِ أَنَّ لِلشَّرِيعَةِ سِيَادَةً عَلَى الإِنْسَانِ مَادَامَ حَيًّا؟

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

٢ 2 فَالْمَرْأَةُ الْمُتَزَوِّجَةُ تَرْبِطُهَا الشَّرِيعَةُ بِزَوْجِهَا مَادَامَ حَيًّا. وَلكِنْ، إِنْ مَاتَ الزَّوْجُ، فَالشَّرِيعَةُ تَحُلُّهَا مِنَ الارْتِبَاطِ بِهِ.

For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

٣ 3 وَلِذَلِكَ، فَمَادَامَ الزَّوْجُ حَيًّا، تُعْتَبَرُ زَانِيَةً إِنْ صَارَتْ إِلَى رَجُلٍ آخَرَ. وَلَكِنْ إِنْ مَاتَ الزَّوْجُ تَتَحَرَّرْ مِنَ الشَّرِيعَةِ، حَتَّى إِنَّهَا لَا تَكُونُ زَانِيَةً إِنْ صَارَتْ إِلَى رَجُلٍ آخَرَ.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

٤ 4 وَهكَذَا أَنْتُمْ أَيْضاً يَا إِخْوَتِي، فَإِنَّكُمْ بِجَسَدِ الْمَسِيحِ الَّذِي مَاتَ، قَدْ صِرْتُمْ أَمْوَاتاً بِالنِّسْبَةِ لِلشَّرِيعَةِ، لِكَيْ تَصِيرُوا لِآخَرَ، إِلَى الْمَسِيحِ نَفْسِهِ الَّذِي أُقِيمَ مِنْ بَيْنِ الأَمْوَاتِ، مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنْ نُثْمِرَ لِلهِ.

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

٥ 5 فَعِنْدَمَا كُنَّا فِي الْجَسَدِ، كَانَتْ أَهْوَاءُ الْخَطَايَا الْمُعْلَنَةِ فِي الشَّرِيعَةِ عَامِلَةً فِي أَعْضَائِنَا لِكَيْ نُثْمِرَ لِلْمَوْتِ.

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

٦ 6 أَمَّا الآنَ، فَقَدْ تَحَرَّرْنَا مِنَ الشَّرِيعَةِ، إِذْ مُتْنَا بِالنِّسْبَةِ لِمَا كَانَ يُقَيِّدُنَا، حَتَّى نَكُونَ عَبِيداً يَخْدِمُونَ وَفْقاً لِلنِّظَامِ الرُّوحِيِّ الْجَدِيدِ، لَا لِلنِّظَامِ الْحَرْفِيِّ الْعَتِيقِ.

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

٧ 7 إِذَنْ، مَاذَا نَقُولُ؟ هَلِ الشَّرِيعَةُ خَطِيئَةٌ؟ حَاشَا! وَلكِنِّي مَا عَرَفْتُ الْخَطِيئَةَ إِلّا بِالشَّرِيعَةِ. فَمَا كُنْتُ لأَعْرِفَ الشَّهْوَةَ لَوْلا قَولُ الشَّرِيعَةِ: «لا تَشْتَهِ!»

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

٨ 8 وَلَكِنَّ الْخَطِيئَةَ اسْتَغَلَّتْ هَذِهِ الْوَصِيَّةَ فَأَثَارَتْ فِيَّ كُلَّ شَهْوَةٍ. فَلَوْلا الشَّرِيعَةُ، لَكَانَتْ الْخَطِيئَةُ مَيِّتَةٌ.

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

٩ 9 أَمَّا أَنَا فَكُنْتُ مِنْ قَبْلُ عَائِشاً بِمَعْزِلٍ عَنِ الشَّرِيعَةِ؛ وَلَكِنْ لَمَّا جَاءَتِ الشَّرِيعَةُ عَاشَتِ الْخَطِيئَةُ،

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

١٠ 10 فَمُتُّ أَنَا. وَالْوَصِيَّةُ الْهَادِفَةُ إِلَى الْحَيَاةِ، صَارَتْ لِي مُؤَدِّيَةً إِلَى الْمَوْتِ.

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

١١ 11 فَإِنَّ الْخَطِيئَةَ، إِذِ اسْتَغَلَّتِ الْوَصِيَّةَ، خَدَعَتْنِي وَقَتَلَتْنِي بِها.

For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

١٢ 12 فَالشَّرِيعَةُ إِذَنْ مُقَدَّسَةٌ، وَالْوَصِيَّةُ مُقَدَّسَةٌ وَعَادِلَةٌ وَصَالِحَةٌ.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

١٣ 13 فَهَلْ صَارَ مَا هُوَ صَالِحٌ مَوْتاً لِي؟ حَاشَا! وَلَكِنَّ الْخَطِيئَةَ، لِكَيْ تَظْهَرَ أَنَّهَا خَطِيئَةٌ، أَنْتَجَتْ لِيَ الْمَوْتَ بِمَا هُوَ صَالِحٌ، حَتَّى تَصِيرَ الْخَطِيئَةُ خَاطِئَةً جِدّاً بِسَبَبِ الْوَصِيَّةِ.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

١٤ 14 فَإِنَّنَا نَعْلَمُ أَنَّ الشَّرِيعَةَ رُوحِيَّةٌ؛ وَأَمَّا أَنَا فَجَسَدِيٌّ بِيعَ عَبْداً لِلْخَطِيئَةِ.

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

١٥ 15 فَإِنَّ مَا أَفْعَلُهُ لَا أَمْلِكُ السَّيْطَرَةَ عَلَيْهِ: إِذْ لَا أَفْعَلُ مَا أُرِيدُهُ، وَإِنَّ مَا أُبْغِضُهُ فَإِيَّاهُ أَعْمَلُ.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

١٦ 16 فَمَادُمْتُ أَعْمَلُ مَا لَا أُرِيدُهُ، فَإِنِّي أُصَادِقُ عَلَى صَوَابِ الشَّرِيعَةِ.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

١٧ 17 فَالآنَ، إِذَنْ، لَيْسَ بَعْدُ أَنَا مَنْ يَفْعَلُ ذلِكَ، بَلِ الْخَطِيئَةُ الَّتِي تَسْكُنُ فِيَّ.

In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

١٨ 18 لأَنَّنِي أَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ فِيَّ، أَيْ فِي جَسَدِي، لَا يَسْكُنُ الصَّلاحُ: فَأَنْ أُرِيدَ الصَّلاحَ ذَلِكَ مُتَوَفِّرٌ لَدَيَّ؛ وَأَمَّا أَنْ أَفْعَلَهُ، فَذَلِكَ لَا أَسْتَطِيعُهُ.

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

١٩ 19 فَأَنَا لَا أَعْمَلُ الصَّلاحَ الَّذِي أُرِيدُهُ؛ وَإِنَّمَا الشَّرُّ الَّذِي لَا أُرِيدُهُ فَإِيَّاهُ أُمَارِسُ.

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

٢٠ 20 وَلكِنْ، إِنْ كَانَ مَا لَا أُرِيدُهُ أَنَا إِيَّاهُ أَعْمَلُ، فَلَيْسَ بَعْدُ أَنَا مَنْ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ، بَلِ الْخَطِيئَةُ الَّتِي تَسْكُنُ فِيَّ.

And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

٢١ 21 إِذَنْ، أَجِدُ نَفْسِي، أَنَا الَّذِي يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ مَا هُوَ صَالِحٌ، خَاضِعاً لِهَذَا النَّامُوسِ:

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

٢٢ 22 أَنَّ لَدَيَّ الشَّرَّ. فَإِنَّنِي، وَفْقاً لِلإِنْسَانِ الْبَاطِنِ فِيَّ، أَبْتَهِجُ بِشَرِيعَةِ اللهِ.

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

٢٣ 23 وَلكِنَّنِي أَرَى فِي أَعْضَائِي نَامُوساً آخَرَ يُحَارِبُ الشَّرِيعَةَ الَّتِي يُرِيدُهَا عَقْلِي، وَيَجْعَلُنِي أَسِيراً لِنَامُوسِ الْخَطِيئَةِ الْكَائِنِ فِي أَعْضَائِي.

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

٢٤ 24 فَيَا لِي مِنْ إِنْسَانٍ تَعِيسٍ! مَنْ يُحَرِّرُنِي مِنْ جَسَدِ الْمَوْتِ هَذَا؟

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

٢٥ 25 أَشْكُرُ اللهَ بِيَسُوعَ الْمَسِيحِ رَبِّنَا! إِذَنْ، أَنَا نَفْسِي مِنْ حَيْثُ الْعَقْلِ، أَخْدِمُ شَرِيعَةَ اللهِ عَبْداً لَهَا؛ وَلَكِنَّنِي مِنْ حَيْثُ الْجَسَدِ، أَخْدِمُ نَامُوسَ الْخَطِيئَةِ عَبْداً لَهُ.

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.