Romanos 7
1 An ignoratis, fratres (scientibus enim legem loquor), quia lex in homine dominatur quanto tempore vivit?
Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?
2 Nam quæ sub viro est mulier, vivente viro, alligata est legi: si autem mortuus fuerit vir ejus, soluta est a lege viri.
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
3 Igitur, vivente viro, vocabitur adultera si fuerit cum alio viro: si autem mortuus fuerit vir ejus, liberata est a lege viri, ut non sit adultera si fuerit cum alio viro.
So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.
4 Itaque fratres mei, et vos mortificati estis legi per corpus Christi: ut sitis alterius, qui ex mortuis resurrexit, ut fructificemus Deo.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.
5 Cum enim essemus in carne, passiones peccatorum, quæ per legem erant, operabantur in membris nostris, ut fructificarent morti.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 Nunc autem soluti sumus a lege mortis, in qua detinebamur, ita ut serviamus in novitate spiritus, et non in vetustate litteræ.
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were holden; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7 Quid ergo dicemus? lex peccatum est? Absit. Sed peccatum non cognovi, nisi per legem: nam concupiscentiam nesciebam, nisi lex diceret: Non concupisces.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
8 Occasione autem accepta, peccatum per mandatum operatum est in me omnem concupiscentiam. Sine lege enim peccatum mortuum erat.
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.
9 Ego autem vivebam sine lege aliquando: sed cum venisset mandatum, peccatum revixit.
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
10 Ego autem mortuus sum: et inventum est mihi mandatum, quod erat ad vitam, hoc esse ad mortem.
and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I found [to be] unto death:
11 Nam peccatum occasione accepta per mandatum, seduxit me, et per illud occidit.
for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
12 Itaque lex quidem sancta, et mandatum sanctum, et justum, et bonum.
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
13 Quod ergo bonum est, mihi factum est mors? Absit. Sed peccatum, ut appareat peccatum, per bonum operatum est mihi mortem: ut fiat supra modum peccans peccatum per mandatum.
Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shewn to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; —that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
14 Scimus enim quia lex spiritualis est: ego autem carnalis sum, venundatus sub peccato.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 Quod enim operor, non intelligo: non enim quod volo bonum, hoc ago: sed quod odi malum, illud facio.
For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.
16 Si autem quod nolo, illud facio: consentio legi, quoniam bona est.
But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Nunc autem jam non ego operor illud, sed quod habitat in me peccatum.
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
18 Scio enim quia non habitat in me, hoc est in carne mea, bonum. Nam velle, adjacet mihi: perficere autem bonum, non invenio.
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good [is] not.
19 Non enim quod volo bonum, hoc facio: sed quod nolo malum, hoc ago.
For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise.
20 Si autem quod nolo, illud facio: jam non ego operor illud, sed quod habitat in me, peccatum.
But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
21 Invenio igitur legem, volenti mihi facere bonum, quoniam mihi malum adjacet:
I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.
22 condelector enim legi Dei secundum interiorem hominem:
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 video autem aliam legem in membris meis, repugnantem legi mentis meæ, et captivantem me in lege peccati, quæ est in membris meis.
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
24 Infelix ego homo, quis me liberabit de corpore mortis hujus?
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 gratia Dei per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Igitur ego ipse mente servio legi Dei: carne autem, legi peccati.
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
