Romanos 7

1 Or don’t you know, brothers*7:1 The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings." (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."✝7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21 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.

He Tauira mai i te Mārenatanga

1 Kāhore anō koutou kia mātau, e ōku tēina, e kōrero ana hoki ahau ki te hunga mātau ki te ture, hei rangatira te ture mō te tangata i te wā e ora ai ia? 2 Ko te wahine whai tāne hoki, e mau ana anō ia i te ture ki te tāne i a ia e ora ana; ki te mate ia te tāne, kua mawheto ia i te ture a te tāne. 3 Nā, ki te riro ia i te tangata kē i tāna tāne e ora ana anō, ka kīia ia he wahine pūremu. Tēnā, ka mate te tāne, e ātea ana ia i te ture, ka kore ia e pūremu ahakoa riro i te tangata kē.

4 Heoi, ko koutou anō hoki, e ōku tēina, kua meinga kia tūpāpaku ki te ture, nā te tinana o te Karaiti; kia riro ai koutou i tētahi atu, arā i tērā i whakaarahia i te hunga mate, kia whai hua ai tātou ki te Atua. 5 I a tātou hoki i te kikokiko, e mahi ana ngā hihiritanga o ngā hara, e whakaohokia nei e te ture, i roto i ō tātou wāhi, ā, hua ake ko te mate. 6 Ko tēnei kua mawheto mai tātou i te ture, kua mate hoki tātou ki te mea i puritia ai tātou; nō reira e mahi ana tātou i runga i te houtanga o te wairua, kāhore i runga i te tawhitotanga o te kupu tuhituhi.

Te Ture me te Hara

7 Kia pēhea rā he kupu mā tātou? He hara rānei te ture? Kāhore rāpea! Engari, kīhai ahau i mātau ki te hara, me i kaua te ture; kāhore hoki ahau i mōhio ki te hiahia apo, me i kaua te ture te mea mai, "Aua koe e hiahia apo." 8 Nā, ka mau te hara ki tēnei, ā, ka mahi i ngā hiahia apo katoa i roto i ahau, he mea nā te ture. Ki te kore hoki te ture ka mate te hara. 9 I ora hoki ahau i mua i te korenga o te ture. Nō te taenga mai ia o te kupu whakahau, ka ora ake te hara, ā, mate iho ahau. 10 Nā, ko te kupu whakahau i meinga rā hei ora, kitea kētia ana tēnei hei mate mōku.

11 Ka mau te hara ki tēnei, ka whakawai hoki i ahau i runga i te kupu whakahau, nāna ahau i mate ai. 12 Āe rā, he tapu te ture, me te kupu whakahau anō he tapu, he tika, he pai. 13 I riro koia te mea pai hei mate mōku? Kāhore rāpea! Engari, nā te hara i mea te mea pai hei mate mōku, kia whakakitea ai he hara te hara. Nā, ka ai te kupu whakahau hei mea kia tino nui noa atu.

Te Pakanga i roto i a Tātou

14 E mātau ana hoki tātou nō te wairua te ture; ko ahau ia nō te kikokiko, kua hokona hei pārau mā te hara. 15 Ko tāku hoki e mahi nei kāhore e mōhiotia iho e ahau. Kāhore hoki e mahia e ahau tāku i pai ai; heoi ko tāku i kino ai, meatia ana tēnei e ahau. 16 Ki te mahia ia e ahau taua mea kīhai nei ahau i pai atu, e whakaae ana ahau ki te ture he pai. 17 Ko tēnei ehara i ahau i mahi, engari, nā te hara e noho nei i roto i ahau. 18 E mātau ana hoki ahau, kāhore he mea pai e noho ana i roto i ahau, arā i roto i tōku kikokiko. Ko te hiahia hoki kei ahau, ko te mea ia i te pai kāhore i ahau. 19 Ko te pai hoki e hiahiatia ana e ahau, kāhore e mahia e ahau. Engari te kino kīhai nei ahau i pai, mahia ana tēnei e ahau. 20 Ki te mahia ia e ahau taua mea pū kīhai nei ahau i pai atu, ehara i ahau nāna taua mea i mahi, engari, nā te hara e noho nei i roto i ahau.

21 Nā, kua kitea e ahau te ture, arā, kei te tata tonu te kino ki ahau e hiahia nei kia mea i te pai. 22 E āhuareka ana hoki ahau ki te ture a te Atua, arā tō roto tangata. 23 Otirā, kua kitea e ahau tētahi atu ture i roto i ōku wāhi, e whawhai ana ki te ture a tōku hinengaro, e mea ana i ahau hei taurekareka mā te ture a te hara, mā tēnei i roto nei i ōku wāhi. 24 Auē te mate i ahau! Mā wai ahau e whakaora i te tinana o tēnei mate? 25 Mā te Atua! E whakawhetai tonu ana ahau ki a ia i runga i a Īhu Karaiti, i tō tātou Ariki.

Nā, e mahi ana ahau anō nei, arā, tōku hinengaro, ki te ture a te Atua, ko tōku kikokiko ia ki te ture a te hara.