羅馬書 7
1 弟兄們! 我現在是對明白法律的人說話：難道你們不知道：法律統治人，只是在人活著的時候嗎？
Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law, ) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?
2 就如有丈夫的女人，當丈夫還活著的時候，是受法律束縛的；如果丈夫死了，她就不再因丈夫而受法律的束縛。
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:
3 所以，當丈夫活著的時候，她若依附別的男人，便稱為淫婦；但如果丈夫死了，按法律她是自由的；她若依附別的男人，便不是淫婦。
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.
4 所以，我的弟兄們! 你們藉著基督的身體已死於法律了，為使你們屬於另一位，就是屬於由死者中復活的那一位，為叫我們給天主結果實，
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.
5 因為我們還在肉性權下的時候，那藉法律而傾向於罪惡的情慾，在我們的肢體內活動，結出死亡的果實。
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;
6 但是現在，我們已死於束縛我們的勢力，脫離了法律，如此，我們不應再拘泥於舊約條文，而應以新的心神事奉天主。
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.
7 那麼，我們能說法律本身罪嗎？絕對不能! 然而藉著法律，我才知道罪是什麼。如果不是法律說：「不可貪戀! 」我就不知道什麼是貪情。
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;
8 罪惡遂乘機藉著誡命，在我內發動各種貪情；原來若沒有法律，罪惡便是死的。
but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.
9 從前我沒有法律時，我是活人；但誡命一來，罪惡便活了起來，
But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.
10 我反而死了。那本來應叫我生活的誡命，反叫我死了，
And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:
11 因為罪惡藉著誡命乘機誘惑了我，我也藉著誡命殺害了我。
for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
12 所以法律本是聖的，誡命也是聖的，是正義和美善的。
So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 那麼是善事使我死了嗎？絕對不是! 而是罪惡。罪惡為顯示罪惡的本性，藉著善事為我產生了死亡，以致罪惡藉著誡命成了極端的凶惡。
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.
14 我們知道：法律是屬於神的，但我是屬血肉的，已被賣給罪惡作奴隸。
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 因為我不明白我作的是什麼：我所願意的，我偏不作；我所憎恨的，我反而去作。
For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
16 我若去作我所不願意的，這便是承認法律是善的。
But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.
17 實際上作那事的已不是我，而是在我內的罪惡。
Now then [it is] no longer I [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
18 我也知道，善不在我內，即不在我的肉性內，因為我有心行善，但實際上卻不能行善。
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.
19 因此，我所願意的善，我不去行；我所不願意的惡，我卻去作。
For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
20 但我所不願意的，我若去作，那麼已不是我作那事，而是在我內的罪惡。
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.
21 所以我發見這條規律：就是我願意為善的時候，總邪惡依附著我。
I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.
22 因為照我的內心，我是喜悅天主的法律；
For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:
23 可是，我發覺在我的肢體，內另有一條法律，與我理智所贊同的法律交戰，並把我擄去，叫我隸屬於那在我肢體內的罪惡的法律。
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.
24 我這個人真不幸呀! 誰能救我脫離這該死的肉身呢？
O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
25 感謝天主，藉著我們的主耶穌基督。這樣看來，我這人是以理智去服從天主的法律，而以肉性去服從罪惡的法律。
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.
