1 Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?
2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:
3 so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.
4 So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among {the} dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which {were} by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
6 but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
7 What shall we say then? {is} the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;
8 but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin {was} dead.
9 But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.
10 And the commandment, which {was} for life, was found, {as} to me, itself {to be} unto death:
11 for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.
12 So that the law indeed {is} holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
16 But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that {it is} right.
17 Now then {it is} no longer *I* {that} do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right {I find} not.
19 For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
20 But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, {it is} no longer *I* {that} do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.
22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:
23 but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.
24 O wretched man that I {am}! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
25 I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then *I* *myself* with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.
1 弟兄们， 我对懂得律法的人说， 你们不晓得律法管辖人， 是在他活着的期间吗？
2 一个已婚的妇人， 在丈夫活着的时候， 她是受律法约束归属丈夫； 丈夫若死了， 她就脱离丈夫在律法上的约束。
3 所以， 当丈夫还活着的时候， 如果她归属别的男人， 就称为淫妇； 丈夫若死了， 她就脱离了律法的约束， 如果她归属别的男人， 也不是淫妇。
4 这样， 我的弟兄们， 你们借着基督的身体， 对律法来说也已经死了， 使你们归属另一位， 就是那从死人中复活的， 为的是要我们结果子给 神。
5 我们从前属肉体的时候， 罪恶的情欲借着律法在我们的肢体里发动， 就结出死亡的果子。
6 但现在， 我们既然向那捆绑我们的律法死了， 就脱离了律法的约束， 好让我们用心灵的新样子， 而不用仪文的旧方式来服事主。
7 这样， 我们可以说什么呢？难道律法是罪吗？绝对不是。不过， 如果不是借着律法， 我就不知道什么是罪； 如果不是律法说"不可贪心"， 我就不知道什么是贪心。
8 但罪趁着机会， 借着诫命在我里面发动各样的贪心， 因为没有律法， 罪是死的。
9 在没有律法的时候， 我是活的； 但诫命一来， 罪就活了，
10 我就死了， 那本来使人活的诫命， 反而使我死了；
11 因为罪借着诫命把握着机会来欺骗我， 并且杀了我。
12 这样， 律法是圣洁的， 诫命也是圣洁、公义和良善的。
13 既是这样， 那良善的反而使我死吗？绝对不是！ 但罪借着那良善的使我死， 就显出真是罪， 为了要使罪借着诫命变成更加邪恶。
14 我们知道律法是属灵的， 我却是属肉体的， 已经卖给罪了。
15 因为我所作的， 我不明白； 我所愿意的， 我没有去作， 我所恨恶的， 我倒去作。
16 如果我所不愿意的， 我倒去作， 我就不得不承认律法是好的。
17 既是这样， 那就不是我作的， 而是住在我里面的罪作的。
18 我知道在我里面， 就是在我肉体之中， 没有良善， 因为立志行善由得我， 行出来却由不得我。
19 所以我愿意行的善， 我没有去行； 我不愿意作的恶， 我倒去作了。
20 我若作自己不愿意作的事， 那就不是我作的， 而是住在我里面的罪作的。
21 因此， 我发现了一个律， 就是我想向善的时候， 恶就在我里面出现。
22 按着我里面的人来说， 我是喜欢 神的律，
23 但我发觉肢体中另有一个律， 和我心中的律争战， 把我掳去附从肢体中的罪律。
24 我这个人真是苦啊！ 谁能救我脱离这使我死亡的身体呢？
25 感谢 神， 借着我们的主耶稣基督就能脱离了。可见， 一方面我自己心里服事 神的律， 另一方面我的肉体却服事罪的律。