1 Do you not know, brothers and sisters —for I am speaking to those who know the law —that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, "the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." [^2]8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. "For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do —this I keep on doing.20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.22 For in my inner being I delight in God's law;23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful nature "a slave to the law of sin.

1 ام تجهلون ايها الاخوة. لاني اكلم العارفين بالناموس. ان الناموس يسود على الانسان ما دام حيّا.2 فان المرأة التي تحت رجل هي مرتبطة بالناموس بالرجل الحي. ولكن ان مات الرجل فقد تحررت من ناموس الرجل.3 فاذا ما دام الرجل حيّا تدعى زانية ان صارت لرجل آخر. ولكن ان مات الرجل فهي حرة من الناموس حتى انها ليست زانية ان صارت لرجل آخر.4 اذا يا اخوتي انتم ايضا قد متم للناموس بجسد المسيح لكي تصيروا لآخر للذي قد أقيم من الاموات لنثمر للّه.5 لانه لما كنا في الجسد كانت اهواء الخطايا التي بالناموس تعمل في اعضائنا لكي نثمر للموت.6 واما الآن فقد تحررنا من الناموس اذ مات الذي كنا ممسكين فيه حتى نعبد بجدة الروح لا بعتق الحرف7 فماذا نقول. هل الناموس خطية. حاشا. بل لم اعرف الخطية الا بالناموس. فانني لم اعرف الشهوة لو لم يقل الناموس لا تشته.8 ولكن الخطية وهي متخذة فرصة بالوصية انشأت في كل شهوة. لان بدون الناموس الخطية ميتة.9 اما انا فكنت بدون الناموس عائشا قبلا. ولكن لما جاءت الوصية عاشت الخطية فمتّ انا.10 فوجدت الوصية التي للحياة هي نفسها لي للموت.11 لان الخطية وهي متخذة فرصة بالوصية خدعتني بها وقتلتني.12 اذا الناموس مقدس والوصية مقدسة وعادلة وصالحة.13 فهل صار لي الصالح موتا. حاشا. بل الخطية. لكي تظهر خطية منشئة لي بالصالح موتا لكي تصير الخطية خاطئة جدا بالوصية14 فاننا نعلم ان الناموس روحي واما انا فجسدي مبيع تحت الخطية.15 لاني لست اعرف ما انا افعله اذ لست افعل ما اريده بل ما ابغضه فاياه افعل.16 فان كنت افعل ما لست اريده فاني اصادق الناموس انه حسن.17 فالآن لست بعد افعل ذلك انا بل الخطية الساكنة فيّ.18 فاني اعلم انه ليس ساكن فيّ اي في جسدي شيء صالح. لان الارادة حاضرة عندي واما ان افعل الحسنى فلست اجد.19 لاني لست افعل الصالح الذي اريده بل الشر الذي لست اريده فاياه افعل.20 فان كنت ما لست اريده اياه افعل فلست بعد افعله انا بل الخطية الساكنة فيّ.21 اذا اجد الناموس لي حينما اريد ان افعل الحسنى ان الشر حاضر عندي.22 فاني اسرّ بناموس الله بحسب الانسان الباطن.23 ولكني ارى ناموسا آخر في اعضائي يحارب ناموس ذهني ويسبيني الى ناموس الخطية الكائن في اعضائي.24 ويحي انا الانسان الشقي. من ينقذني من جسد هذا الموت.25 اشكر الله بيسوع المسيح ربنا. اذا انا نفسي بذهني اخدم ناموس الله ولكن بالجسد ناموس الخطية