1 You, my friends, understand law. The law has power only while a person is alive.
2 The 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 If 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 It 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 When 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 But 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 Then, 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 Sin took advantage of the commandment to stir in me all kinds of greed; whereas, without a Law, Sin lies dead.
9 First there was no Law and I lived. Then the commandment came and gave life to Sin:
10 and I died. It happened that the Law of life had brought me death.
11 Sin took advantage of the commandment: it lured me and killed me through the commandment.
12 But the Law itself is holy, just and good.
13 Is 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 We know that the Law is spiritual; as for me, I am flesh and have been sold to sin.
15 I 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 Well then, if I do the evil I do not want to do, I agree that the Law is good;
17 but, in this case, I am not the one striving toward evil, but it is sin, living in me.
18 I 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 In fact I do not do the good I want, but the evil I hate.
20 Therefore, 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 I discover, then, this reality: though I wish to do what is right, the evil within me asserts itself first.
22 My inmost self agrees and rejoices with the law of God,
23 but 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 Alas, for me! Who will free me from this being which is only death?
25 Let 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.
Versículos relacionados com Romans, 7:
Romans 7 addresses the Christian's internal struggle between flesh and spirit. The chapter highlights the sinful nature of the flesh and the inability of man to achieve justice by his own strength. Paul expresses his own battle against sin and his need for a Savior to free him from the slavery of sin.
Psalm 51:5: "Behold, in iniquity I was formed, and in sin my mother conceived me." This verse highlights man's sinful nature from birth and relates to the idea presented in Romans 7:18-20, in which Paul recognizes his sinful nature.
Romans 6:23: "For the salary of sin is death, but God's free gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." This verse highlights the need for salvation by faith in Jesus Christ, a theme that is emphasized in Romans 7:24-25.
Galatians 5:16-17: "But I say,: Walk in the Spirit, and never satisfy the lust of the flesh. For the flesh covets against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and they are opposed to each other, so that Do not do what you want. " This verse relates to the struggle between the flesh and the spirit that is approached in Romans 7:14-23.
Romans 8:2: "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus delivered you from the law of sin and death." This verse highlights the liberation of man from slavery of sin through Jesus Christ, a theme that is presented in Romans 7:24-25.
1 John 1:8-10: "If we say that we have no sin, we ourselves deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us the sins, and us in Purifying from all injustice. If we say that we have not committed sin, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. " This verse highlights the need to recognize the sinful nature itself and to seek salvation in Jesus Christ, themes that are addressed in Romans 7:14-25.
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