Romans 7
1 Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law has authority over someone only as long as he lives?
he bhrātṛgaṇa vyavasthāvidaḥ prati mamedaṁ nivedanaṁ| vidhiḥ kevalaṁ yāvajjīvaṁ mānavoparyyadhipatitvaṁ karotīti yūyaṁ kiṁ na jānītha?
2 For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if the man should die, she is released from the law about the husband.
yāvatkālaṁ pati rjīvati tāvatkālam ūḍhā bhāryyā vyavasthayā tasmin baddhā tiṣṭhati kintu yadi pati rmriyate tarhi sā nārī patyu rvyavasthāto mucyate|
3 So then, if she should ‘marry’ another man while her husband is living, she will be labeled an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from that law, not being an adulteress if she marries another man.
etatkāraṇāt patyurjīvanakāle nārī yadyanyaṁ puruṣaṁ vivahati tarhi sā vyabhicāriṇī bhavati kintu yadi sa pati rmriyate tarhi sā tasyā vyavasthāyā muktā satī puruṣāntareṇa vyūḍhāpi vyabhicāriṇī na bhavati|
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God.
he mama bhrātṛgaṇa, īśvaranimittaṁ yadasmākaṁ phalaṁ jāyate tadarthaṁ śmaśānād utthāpitena puruṣeṇa saha yuṣmākaṁ vivāho yad bhavet tadarthaṁ khrīṣṭasya śarīreṇa yūyaṁ vyavasthāṁ prati mṛtavantaḥ|
5 Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death.
yato'smākaṁ śārīrikācaraṇasamaye maraṇanimittaṁ phalam utpādayituṁ vyavasthayā dūṣitaḥ pāpābhilāṣo'smākam aṅgeṣu jīvan āsīt|
6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what was gripping us, so as to slave in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
kintu tadā yasyā vyavasthāyā vaśe āsmahi sāmprataṁ tāṁ prati mṛtatvād vayaṁ tasyā adhīnatvāt muktā iti hetorīśvaro'smābhiḥ purātanalikhitānusārāt na sevitavyaḥ kintu navīnasvabhāvenaiva sevitavyaḥ
7 So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”
tarhi vayaṁ kiṁ brūmaḥ? vyavasthā kiṁ pāpajanikā bhavati? netthaṁ bhavatu| vyavasthām avidyamānāyāṁ pāpaṁ kim ityahaṁ nāvedaṁ; kiñca lobhaṁ mā kārṣīriti ced vyavasthāgranthe likhitaṁ nābhaviṣyat tarhi lobhaḥ kimbhūtastadahaṁ nājñāsyaṁ|
8 But the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. Now without the law sin is dead.
kintu vyavasthayā pāpaṁ chidraṁ prāpyāsmākam antaḥ sarvvavidhaṁ kutsitābhilāṣam ajanayat; yato vyavasthāyām avidyamānāyāṁ pāpaṁ mṛtaṁ|
9 Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died.
aparaṁ pūrvvaṁ vyavasthāyām avidyamānāyām aham ajīvaṁ tataḥ param ājñāyām upasthitāyām pāpam ajīvat tadāham amriye|
10 Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death.
itthaṁ sati jīvananimittā yājñā sā mama mṛtyujanikābhavat|
11 Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me.
yataḥ pāpaṁ chidraṁ prāpya vyavasthitādeśena māṁ vañcayitvā tena mām ahan|
12 So then, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
ataeva vyavasthā pavitrā, ādeśaśca pavitro nyāyyo hitakārī ca bhavati|
13 So has what is good become death to me? Of course not! Rather the sin, that it might be exposed as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment the sin might become extremely sinful.
tarhi yat svayaṁ hitakṛt tat kiṁ mama mṛtyujanakam abhavat? netthaṁ bhavatu; kintu pāpaṁ yat pātakamiva prakāśate tathā nideśena pāpaṁ yadatīva pātakamiva prakāśate tadarthaṁ hitopāyena mama maraṇam ajanayat|
14 We know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been ‘sold’ under sin
vyavasthātmabodhiketi vayaṁ jānīmaḥ kintvahaṁ śārīratācārī pāpasya krītakiṅkaro vidye|
15 —you see, I do not understand what I am doing: I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate!
yato yat karmma karomi tat mama mano'bhimataṁ nahi; aparaṁ yan mama mano'bhimataṁ tanna karomi kintu yad ṛtīye tat karomi|
16 But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
tathātve yan mamānabhimataṁ tad yadi karomi tarhi vyavasthā sūttameti svīkaromi|
17 So now it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin dwelling in me.
ataeva samprati tat karmma mayā kriyata iti nahi kintu mama śarīrasthena pāpenaiva kriyate|
18 Further, I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because to will is present with me, but I do not find how to perform the good.
yato mayi, arthato mama śarīre, kimapyuttamaṁ na vasati, etad ahaṁ jānāmi; mamecchukatāyāṁ tiṣṭhantyāmapyaham uttamakarmmasādhane samartho na bhavāmi|
19 Because I do not do the good that I want to do; rather I practice the evil that I do not want to do.
yato yāmuttamāṁ kriyāṁ karttumahaṁ vāñchāmi tāṁ na karomi kintu yat kutsitaṁ karmma karttum anicchuko'smi tadeva karomi|
20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin dwelling in me.
ataeva yadyat karmma karttuṁ mamecchā na bhavati tad yadi karomi tarhi tat mayā na kriyate, mamāntarvarttinā pāpenaiva kriyate|
21 So I find this ‘law’: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
bhadraṁ karttum icchukaṁ māṁ yo 'bhadraṁ karttuṁ pravarttayati tādṛśaṁ svabhāvamekaṁ mayi paśyāmi|
22 I joyfully agree with God's law according to the inner man,
aham āntarikapuruṣeṇeśvaravyavasthāyāṁ santuṣṭa āse;
23 but I see a different ‘law’ in my body parts, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of the sin that is in my body parts.
kintu tadviparītaṁ yudhyantaṁ tadanyamekaṁ svabhāvaṁ madīyāṅgasthitaṁ prapaśyāmi, sa madīyāṅgasthitapāpasvabhāvasyāyattaṁ māṁ karttuṁ ceṣṭate|
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
hā hā yo'haṁ durbhāgyo manujastaṁ mām etasmān mṛtāccharīrāt ko nistārayiṣyati?
25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, sin's law.
asmākaṁ prabhuṇā yīśukhrīṣṭena nistārayitāram īśvaraṁ dhanyaṁ vadāmi| ataeva śarīreṇa pāpavyavasthāyā manasā tu īśvaravyavasthāyāḥ sevanaṁ karomi|
