Romans 7
1 KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law, ) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Ne veste li, bratje, (tistim namreč, kteri postavo poznajo, govorim, ) da postava gospoduje nad človekom, kolikor časa živi?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Kajti omožena žena je s postavo privezana na moža, dokler on živi; če jej pa umre, odvezana je od moža.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, 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.
Za to se bo torej prešestnica imenovala, če, dokler nje mož živi, postane žena drugega moža; če pa mož umre, prosta je od postave, da ne bo prešestnica, če postane žena drugega moža.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Tako, bratje moji, ste tudi vi umrli postavi po telesu Kristusovem, da postanete drugega, tistega, kteri je iz mrtvih vstal, da sad obrodimo Bogu.
5 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.
Kajti ko smo bili v mesu, delale so v naših udih grešne strasti zbujene po postavi, da smrti sad obrodé.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Sedaj smo se pa rešili postave, ko je odmrlo to, v čemer smo bili držani tako, da služimo v novosti duha in ne v starini črke.
7 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, Thou shalt not covet.
Kaj torej porečemo? postava je greh? Bog ne daj! Ali greha nisem spoznal razen s postavo, kajti za poželenje bi ne bil vedel, ko bi postava ne govorila; "Ne poželi."
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Ko je pa priložnost dobil greh po zapovedi, napravil je v meni vsako poželenje; kajti greh brez postave je bil mrtev.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
A jaz sem živel brez postave nekdaj, ko je pa zapoved prišla, oživel je greh,
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
A jaz sem umrl in našlo se je, da mi je ta zapoved, ktera je bila za življenje, za smrt.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Kajti greh, dobivši priložnost z zapovedjo, ukanil me je in ž njo umoril.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Tako je postava sveta in zapoved sveta in pravična in dobra.
13 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.
Dobro je torej meni postalo smrt? Bog ne daj! Nego greh, da se pokaže greh, pripravljajoč mi z dobrim smrt, da postane črez mero grešen greh po zapovedi.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Kajti vemo, da je postava duhovna, a jaz sem mesen, suženj pod oblastjo greha.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Ker kar delam, ne umejem, kajti kar hočem, tega ne delam, nego kar sovražim, to delam.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Če pa to delam, kar ne čem, pritrjam postavi, da je dobra.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Sedaj pa uže nič več jaz ne delam tega, nego v meni prebivajoči greh.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh, ) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Kajti vem, da ne prebiva v meni, (to je v mojem mesu, ) dobro, ker hoteti, to je pri meni, ali do konca doganjati dobro, tega ne nahajam.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Kajti dobro, kar hočem, ne delam, nego hudo, kar ne čem, delam.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Če pa to delam, kar ne čem jaz, nič več jaz tega ne delam, nego v meni prebivajoči greh.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Nahajam torej postavo, kedar hočem dobro delati, da se me hudo drži.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Kajti veselim se postavi Božjej po notranjem človeku;
23 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.
Ali vidim drugo postavo v svojih udih, ktera se ustavlja postavi uma mojega in me zavjema z grešno postavo, ktera je v mojih udih.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Jaz nesrečni človek! kdo me bo otel iz telesa te smrti?
25 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.
Zahvaljujem se Bogu po Jezusu Kristusu Gospodu našem. Tako torej sam jaz z duhom služim postavi Božjej, a z mesom postavi greha.
