Rimljanima 7
1 Ili zar ne znate, braćo - poznavaocima zakona govorim - da zakon gospodari čovjekom samo za vrijeme njegova života.
Brethren, do you not know--for I am writing to people acquainted with the Law--that it is during our lifetime that we are subject to the Law?
2 Doista, udana je žena vezana zakonom dok joj muž živi; umre li joj muž, riješena je zakona o mužu.
A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.
3 Dakle: dok joj muž živi, zvat će se, očito, preljubnicom pođe li za drugoga. Ako li joj pak muž umre, slobodna je od zakona te nije preljubnica pođe li za drugoga.
This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.
4 Tako, braćo moja, i vi po tijelu Kristovu umrijeste Zakonu da pripadnete drugomu, Onomu koji je od mrtvih uskrišen, te plodove donosimo Bogu.
So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.
5 Doista, dok bijasmo u tijelu, grešne su strasti, Zakonom izazvane, djelovale u našim udovima te smrti donosile plodove;
For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
6 sada pak umrijevši onomu što nas je sputavalo, riješeni smo Zakona te služimo u novosti Duha, a ne u stareži slova.
But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.
7 Što ćemo dakle reći? Je li Zakon grijeh? Nipošto! Nego: grijeha ne spoznah doli po Zakonu jer za požudu ne bih znao da Zakon nije govorio: Ne poželi!
What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not covet."
8 A grijeh je, uhvativši priliku, po zapovijedi u meni prouzročio svakovrsnu požudu. Ta bez zakona grijeh je mrtav.
Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.
9 Da, ja sam nekoć živio bez zakona. Ali kad je došla zapovijed, grijeh oživje.
Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
10 Ja pak umrijeh i ustanovi se: zapovijed dana za život bi mi na smrt.
and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
11 Doista grijeh, uhvativši priliku, zapovijeđu me zavede, njome me i ubi.
For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.
12 Tako: Zakon je svet, i zapovijed je sveta, i pravedna, i dobra.
So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.
13 Pa zar se to dobro meni u smrt prometnu? Nipošto! Nego: grijeh, da se grijehom očituje, po tom dobru uzrokuje mi smrt - da grijeh po zapovijedi postane najvećim grešnikom.
Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.
14 Zakon je, znamo, duhovan; ja sam pak tjelesan, prodan pod grijeh.
For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual--the slave, bought and sold, of sin.
15 Zbilja ne razumijem što radim: ta ne činim ono što bih htio, nego što mrzim - to činim.
For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.
16 Ako li pak činim što ne bih htio, slažem se sa Zakonom, priznajem da je dobar.
But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,
17 Onda to ne činim više ja, nego grijeh koji prebiva u meni.
and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.
18 Doista znam da dobro ne prebiva u meni, to jest u mojem tijelu. Uistinu: htjeti mi ide, ali ne i činiti dobro.
For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.
19 Ta ne činim dobro koje bih htio, nego zlo koje ne bih htio - to činim.
For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.
20 Ako li pak činim ono što ne bih htio, nipošto to ne radim ja, nego grijeh koji prebiva u meni.
But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it.
21 Nalazim dakle ovaj zakon: kad bih htio činiti dobro, nameće mi se zlo.
I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.
22 Po nutarnjem čovjeku s užitkom se slažem sa Zakonom Božjim,
For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;
23 ali opažam u svojim udovima drugi zakon koji vojuje protiv zakona uma moga i zarobljuje me zakonom grijeha koji je u mojim udovima.
but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.
24 Jadan li sam ja čovjek! Tko će me istrgnuti iz ovoga tijela smrtonosnoga?
(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
25 Hvala Bogu po Isusu Kristu Gospodinu našem! Ja, dakle, umom ja služim zakonu Božjemu, a tijelom zakonu grijeha.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) To sum up then, with my understanding, I--my true self--am in servitude to the Law of God, but with my lower nature I am in servitude to the Law of sin.
