Romans 7
1 Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a person only as long as he lives?
he bhrātṛgaṇa vyavasthāvidaḥ prati mamedaṁ nivedanaṁ| vidhiḥ kevalaṁ yāvajjīvaṁ mānavoparyyadhipatitvaṁ karotīti yūyaṁ kiṁ na jānītha?
2 For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband.
yāvatkālaṁ pati rjīvati tāvatkālam ūḍhā bhāryyā vyavasthayā tasmin baddhā tiṣṭhati kintu yadi pati rmriyate tarhi sā nārī patyu rvyavasthāto mucyate|
3 So then, she will be called an adulteress if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not committing adultery if she is joined to 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 So then, my brothers, you also were put to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for 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 For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, which were aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit leading 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 that by which we were held, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
kintu tadā yasyā vyavasthāyā vaśe āsmahi sāmprataṁ tāṁ prati mṛtatvād vayaṁ tasyā adhīnatvāt muktā iti hetorīśvaro'smābhiḥ purātanalikhitānusārāt na sevitavyaḥ kintu navīnasvabhāvenaiva sevitavyaḥ
7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Yet I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, “Yoʋ shall 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 sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetousness. For apart from the law sin is dead.
kintu vyavasthayā pāpaṁ chidraṁ prāpyāsmākam antaḥ sarvvavidhaṁ kutsitābhilāṣam ajanayat; yato vyavasthāyām avidyamānāyāṁ pāpaṁ mṛtaṁ|
9 Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.
aparaṁ pūrvvaṁ vyavasthāyām avidyamānāyām aham ajīvaṁ tataḥ param ājñāyām upasthitāyām pāpam ajīvat tadāham amriye|
10 So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
itthaṁ sati jīvananimittā yājñā sā mama mṛtyujanikābhavat|
11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
yataḥ pāpaṁ chidraṁ prāpya vyavasthitādeśena māṁ vañcayitvā tena mām ahan|
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
ataeva vyavasthā pavitrā, ādeśaśca pavitro nyāyyo hitakārī ca bhavati|
13 Has that then which is good brought death to me? Certainly not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly 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 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave to sin.
vyavasthātmabodhiketi vayaṁ jānīmaḥ kintvahaṁ śārīratācārī pāpasya krītakiṅkaro vidye|
15 I do not understand what I do. Instead of doing what I want to do, I do the very thing I hate.
yato yat karmma karomi tat mama mano'bhimataṁ nahi; aparaṁ yan mama mano'bhimataṁ tanna karomi kintu yad ṛtīye tat karomi|
16 Now if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
tathātve yan mamānabhimataṁ tad yadi karomi tarhi vyavasthā sūttameti svīkaromi|
17 But now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
ataeva samprati tat karmma mayā kriyata iti nahi kintu mama śarīrasthena pāpenaiva kriyate|
18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. I have the desire to do what is right, but I find that the ability to carry it out is lacking.
yato mayi, arthato mama śarīre, kimapyuttamaṁ na vasati, etad ahaṁ jānāmi; mamecchukatāyāṁ tiṣṭhantyāmapyaham uttamakarmmasādhane samartho na bhavāmi|
19 For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I do the very 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 the very thing I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
ataeva yadyat karmma karttuṁ mamecchā na bhavati tad yadi karomi tarhi tat mayā na kriyate, mamāntarvarttinā pāpenaiva kriyate|
21 I find then the law that when I want to do what is right, evil is present with me.
bhadraṁ karttum icchukaṁ māṁ yo 'bhadraṁ karttuṁ pravarttayati tādṛśaṁ svabhāvamekaṁ mayi paśyāmi|
22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being,
aham āntarikapuruṣeṇeśvaravyavasthāyāṁ santuṣṭa āse;
23 but I see another law at work in my members, warring against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that is in my members.
kintu tadviparītaṁ yudhyantaṁ tadanyamekaṁ svabhāvaṁ madīyāṅgasthitaṁ prapaśyāmi, sa madīyāṅgasthitapāpasvabhāvasyāyattaṁ māṁ karttuṁ ceṣṭate|
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
hā hā yo'haṁ durbhāgyo manujastaṁ mām etasmān mṛtāccharīrāt ko nistārayiṣyati?
25 I thank God that he will do so through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
asmākaṁ prabhuṇā yīśukhrīṣṭena nistārayitāram īśvaraṁ dhanyaṁ vadāmi| ataeva śarīreṇa pāpavyavasthāyā manasā tu īśvaravyavasthāyāḥ sevanaṁ karomi|
