رُوما 7

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

Know all of you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law, ) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

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

For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

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, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to 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.

Wherefore, my brethren, all of you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that all of you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

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

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto 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 we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, (pneuma) and not in the oldness of the letter.

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 shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet.

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

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

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

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

١٢ 12 فَالشَّرِيعَةُ إِذَنْ مُقَدَّسَةٌ، وَالْوَصِيَّةُ مُقَدَّسَةٌ وَعَادِلَةٌ وَصَالِحَةٌ.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, 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.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

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

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

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

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

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

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

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

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

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

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh, ) dwells no good thing: in order to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

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

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

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

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

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

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

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

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

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 in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

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

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this 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.

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