罗马书:Chapter 7

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罗马书:Chapter 7

罗马书	Romans
¹弟兄们！我现在是对明白法律的人说话：难道你们不知道：法律统治人，只是在人活着的时候吗？	¹You, my friends, understand law. The law has power only while a person is alive.
²就如有丈夫的女人，当丈夫还活着的时候，是受法律束缚的；如果丈夫死了，她就不再因丈夫而受法律的束缚。	²The married woman, for example, is bound by law to her husband while he is alive; but if he dies, she is free from her obligations as a wife.
³所以，当丈夫活着的时候，她若依附别的男人，便称为淫妇；但如果丈夫死了，按法律她是自由的；她若依附别的男人，便不是淫妇。	³If she gives herself to another while her husband is alive, she will be an adulteress; but once the husband dies, she is free and if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.
⁴所以，我的弟兄们！你们藉着基督的身体已死于法律了，为使你们属于另一位，就是属于由死者中复活的那一位，为叫我们给天主结果实，	⁴It was the same with you, brothers and sisters: you have died to the Law with the person of Christ, and you belong to another, who has risen from among the dead, so that we may produce fruit for God.
⁵因为我们还在肉性权下的时候，那藉法律而倾向于罪恶的情欲，在我们的肢体内活动，结出死亡的果实。	⁵When we lived as humans used to do, the Law stirred up the desires for all that is sin, and they worked in our bodies with fruits of death.
⁶但是现在，我们已死于束缚我们的势力，脱离了法律，如此，我们不应再拘泥于旧的条文，而应以新的心神事奉天主。	⁶But we have died to what was holding us; we are freed from the Law and no longer serve a written law - which was the old; with the Spirit we are in the new.
⁷那么，我们能说法律本身有罪吗？绝对不能！然而藉着法律，我才知道罪是什么。如果不是法律说：「不可贪恋！」我就不知道什么是贪情。	⁷Then, shall we say that the Law is part of sin? Of course not. However, I would not have known Sin, had it not been through the Law. I would not be aware of greed if the Law did not tell me: Do not covet.
⁸罪恶遂乘机藉着诫命，在我内发动各种贪情；原来若没有法律，罪恶便是死的。	⁸Sin took advantage of the commandment to stir in me all kinds of greed; whereas, without a Law, Sin lies dead.
⁹从前我没有法律时，我是活人；但诫命一来，罪恶便活了起来，	⁹First there was no Law and I lived. Then the commandment came and gave life to Sin:
¹⁰我反而死了。那本来应叫我生活的诫命，反叫我死了，	¹⁰and I died. It happened that the Law of life had brought me death.
¹¹因为罪恶藉着诫命乘机诱惑了我，也藉着诫命杀害了我。	¹¹Sin took advantage of the commandment: it lured me and killed me through the commandment.
¹²所以法律本是圣的，诫命也是圣的，是正义和美善的。	¹²But the Law itself is holy, just and good.
¹³那么，是善事使我死了吗？绝对不是！而是罪恶。罪恶为显示罪恶的本性，藉着善事为我产生了死亡，以致罪恶藉着诫命成了极端的凶恶。	¹³Is it possible that something good brings death to me? Of course not. This comes from Sin which may be seen as sin when it takes advantage of something good to kill: the commandment let Sin appear fully sinful.
¹⁴我们知道：法律是属神的，但我是属血肉的，已被卖给罪恶作奴隶。	¹⁴We know that the Law is spiritual; as for me, I am flesh and have been sold to sin.
¹⁵因为我不明白我作的是什么：我所愿意的，我偏不作；我所憎恨的，我反而去作。	¹⁵I cannot explain what is happening to me, because I do not do what I want, but on the contrary, the very things I hate.
¹⁶我若去作我所不愿意的，这便是承认法律是善的。	¹⁶Well then, if I do the evil I do not want to do, I agree that the Law is good;
¹⁷实际上作那事的已不是我，而是在我内的罪恶。	¹⁷but, in this case, I am not the one striving toward evil, but it is sin, living in me.
¹⁸我也知道，善不在我内，即不在我的肉性内，因为我有心行善，但实际上却不能行善。	¹⁸I know that what is right does not abide in me, I mean, in my flesh. I can want to do what is right, but I am unable to do it.
¹⁹因此，我所愿意的善，我不去行；而我所不愿意的恶，我却去作。	¹⁹In fact I do not do the good I want, but the evil I hate.
²⁰但我所不愿意的，我若去作，那么已不是我作那事，而是在我内的罪恶。	²⁰Therefore, if I do what I do not want to do, I am not the one striving towards evil, but Sin which is in me.
²¹所以我发见这条规律：就是我愿意为善的时候，总有邪恶依附着我。	²¹I discover, then, this reality: though I wish to do what is right, the evil within me asserts itself first.
²²因为照我的内心，我是喜悦天主的法律；	²²My inmost self agrees and rejoices with the law of God,
²³可是，我发觉在我的肢体内，另有一条法律，与我理智所赞同的法律交战，并把我掳去，叫我隶属于那在我肢体内的罪恶的法律。	²³but I notice in my body another law challenging the law of the spirit, and delivering me as a slave to the law of sin written in my members.
²⁴我这个人真不幸呀！谁能救我脱离这该死的肉身呢？	²⁴Alas, for me! Who will free me from this being which is only death?
²⁵感谢天主，藉着我们的主耶稣基督。这样看来，我这人是以理智去服从天主的法律，而以肉性去服从罪恶的法律。	²⁵Let us give thanks to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So, with my conscience I am a servant of the law of God, and with my mortal I serve the law of sin.

罗马书:Chapter 7

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