Romans 7
1 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?
Eller veit de ikkje, brør - for eg talar til slike som kjenner lovi - at lovi råder yver menneskjet so lenge det liver?
2 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.
For den gifte kvinna er med lovi bundi til mannen sin so lenge han liver; men døyr mannen, er ho løyst frå lovi um mannen.
3 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.
Difor skal ho kallast horkona, um ho gifter seg med ein annan mann medan mannen hennar liver; men døyr mannen, so er ho fri frå lovi, so ho ikkje vert horkona um ho vert gift med ein annan mann.
4 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.
Soleis, mine brør, døydde de og frå lovi ved Kristi likam, av di de skulde høyra til ein annan, det er han som er uppstaden frå dei daude, so me kann bera frukt for Gud.
5 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.
For då me var i kjøtet, verka dei syndige lysterne, som vart vekte ved lovi, soleis i lemerne våre, at me bar frukt for dauden;
6 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.
men no er me løyste frå lovi, med di me hev døytt frå det som me var fangar under, so me tener i Andens nye art og ikkje i bokstavens gamle art.
7 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."
Kva skal me då segja? Er lovi synd? Nei, langt ifrå! men eg kjende ikkje syndi utan gjenom lovi; for eg kjende ikkje lysti, um ikkje lovi hadde sagt: «Du skal ikkje lysta!»
8 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.
Men syndi tok tilføre av bodet og verka allslags lyst i meg; for utan lov er syndi daud.
9 Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
Eg livde ei tid utan lov; men då bodet kom, livna syndi upp,
10 and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
men eg døydde; og bodet som var til liv, vart funne å vera meg til daude,
11 For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.
for syndi tok tilføre av bodet og dåra og drap meg ved det.
12 So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.
So er då lovi heilag, og bodet heilagt og rettferdigt og godt.
13 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.
Hev då det som er godt vorte meg til daude? Nei, langt ifrå! men det var syndi, at ho skulde visa seg å vera synd, med di ho volde meg dauden med det som er godt - so syndi skulde verta storleg syndig ved bodet.
14 For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual--the slave, bought and sold, of sin.
For me veit at lovi er åndeleg, men eg er kjøtleg, seld under syndi.
15 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.
Det eg gjer, det skynar eg ikkje; for eg gjer ikkje det som eg vil, men det som eg hatar, det gjer eg.
16 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,
Men gjer eg det som eg ikkje vil, so vitnar eg med lovi at ho er god.
17 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.
Men no er det ikkje lenger eg som gjer det, men syndi som bur i meg.
18 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.
For eg veit, at i meg, det vil segja i kjøtet mitt, bur inkje godt; for viljen hev eg, men gjera det gode vinn eg ikkje.
19 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.
For eg gjer ikkje det gode som eg vil, men det vonde som eg ikkje vil, det gjer eg.
20 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.
Men gjer eg det som eg ikkje vil, so er det ikkje lenger eg som gjer det, men syndi som bur i meg.
21 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.
So finn eg då den lov for meg, eg som vil gjera det gode, at det vonde ligg meg for handi.
22 For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;
For eg hev hug til Guds lov etter mitt indre menneskje,
23 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.
men eg ser ei onnor lov i lemerne mine, som strider imot lovi i hugen min, og fangar meg under syndelovi som er i lemerne mine.
24 (Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
Eg arme menneskje! kven skal frelsa meg frå denne daudens likam?
25 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.
Gud vere takk ved Jesus Kristus, vår Herre! - So tener då eg i meg sjølv Guds lov med hugen, men syndelovi med kjøtet.
