1 Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? 2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. 3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death. 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death; 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.

13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. 16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. 17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good. 19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice. 20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present. 22 For I delight in God’s law after the inward person, 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself 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.