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 Või eks te tea, vennad - mina räägin käsutundjaile - et käsk valitseb inimese üle, niikaua kui inimene elab.
2 Nii on abielunaine käsuga seotud elusoleva mehe külge; aga kui mees sureb, on ta lahti mehe käsu alt.
3 Sellepärast, kui naine mehe elus olles läheb teisele mehele, nimetatakse teda abielurikkujaks; aga kui mees sureb, on ta sellest käsust vaba, nii et ta ei ole abielurikkuja, kui ta läheb teisele mehele.
4 Nõnda teiegi, mu vennad, olete surmatud käsule Kristuse ihu läbi, et saaksite teisele mehele, kes on surnuist üles äratatud, et me kannaksime vilja Jumalale.
5 Sest kui me olime lihas, siis patuhimud, mis tõusid käsu läbi, tegutsesid meie liikmetes, et kanda vilja surmale.
6 Aga nüüd me oleme käsust lahti ning oleme surnud sellele, mis meid kinni pidas, nii et me teenime Jumalat vaimu uues olemises ja mitte kirjatähe vanas olemises.
7 Mis me siis ütleme? Ons käsk patt? Mitte sugugi! Ent pattu ma ei oleks tundnud muidu kui käsu kaudu; sest ma ei oleks kurjast himust midagi teadnud, kui käsk ei oleks öelnud: „Sa ei tohi himustada!"
8 Aga patt, saades tõuget käsust, äratas minus kõiksugu himusid; sest ilma käsuta on patt surnud.
9 Mina elasin enne ilma käsuta; aga kui käsusõna tuli, virgus patt ellu
10 ja mina surin ära, ja nõnda leiti käsusõna, mis mulle pidi olema eluks, mulle olevat surmaks.
11 Sest kui patt oli saanud käsusõnast tõuke, pettis ta mind ja surmas mind selle abil.
12 Nõnda on siis käsk püha ja käsusõna püha ja õige ja hea.
13 Kas siis nüüd see, mis on hea, on saanud mulle surmaks? Mitte sugugi! Vaid patt, et ta ilmneks patuna, on selle hea kaudu mulle toonud surma, et patt ise saaks üliväga patuseks käsusõna läbi.
14 Sest me teame, et käsk on vaimne, aga mina olen lihalik ja müüdud patu alla.
15 Ma ei tunne ju ära, mida ma teen; sest ma ei tee seda, mida ma tahan, vaid mida ma vihkan, seda ma teen.
16 Kui ma aga teen, mida ma ei taha, siis ma möönan, et käsk on hea.
17 Nii ei tee seda enam mitte mina, vaid patt, mis minus elab.
18 Sest ma tean, et minus, see on minu lihas, ei ela head. Tahet mul on, aga head teha ma ei suuda;
19 sest head, mida ma tahan, ma ei tee, vaid kurja, mida ma ei taha, ma teen!
20 Kui ma nüüd teen seda, mida ma ei taha, siis ei tee seda enam mitte mina, vaid patt, mis minus elab.
21 Nii ma leian eneses käsu, et kuigi ma tahan teha head, on mulle omane teha kurja.
22 Sest seespidise inimese poolest on mul Jumala käsust hea meel,
23 aga oma liikmetes ma tunnen teist käsku, mis paneb vastu mu mõistuse käsule ja võtab mind vangi patu käsu alla, mis on mu liikmetes.
24 Oh mind viletsat inimest! Kes päästab mind sellest surma ihust?
25 Tänu olgu Jumalale Jeesuse Kristuse, meie Issanda läbi! Nii ma siis teenin oma mõistusega Jumala käsku, aga lihaga patu käsku.