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1. Or do you not know, brethren,* for I am
speaking to those who know the Law, that the Law has authority over a man as long
as he is alive.
2. Like the woman who is tied to her husband through the Law, as long as he is alive.
If her husband dies, she is set free from the Law with [respect to] her husband.
3. If while her husband is alive, she takes on another husband, she becomes an adulteress.
If her husband dies, she is free from the Law, and she is not an adulteress if she
becomes [a wife] to another man.
4. And now, brethren, you too are dead to the Law through the body of Christ, to
belong [in commitment] to others, so when you rise fro the dead,* you shall bear
fruit for God.
5. For when we lived in the flesh, the sins of the flesh* that were sanctioned against
our members by the Law, bore fruits for death.
6. However, now we are freed from the Law,* by which we were held, so that we may
serve from now on through the new revival of spirit and not through the antiquity
of Scriptures.
7. What are we saying? That Law is sin? Perish the thought. But I did not know about
sin, except through the Law. For I would not have known covetousness if the Law had
not said, "You shall not covet."
8. And through this commandment sin found an excuse, and there developed in me every
[form of] covetousness. For through the routine of the Law sin dies.*
9. I, however, was alive without the Law, from old times. However, when the commandment
came, sin came into being,*
10. And I died and found for myself the commandment for Life [everlasting] through
death.*
11. For sin through the contingency of the commandment found [the way] to banish
me and thus to kill me.
12. Judgment of the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13. Thus did goodness become my death? Perish the thought. Except, so as sin may
be recognized, that it is sin, that it instilled death in me through pleasures, so
as increasingly sin would become encroached by the commandment.
14. For we know that the Law is spiritual, I however am of the flesh, and bound*
to sin.
15. For neither do I understand to what I have sworn, nor do I do what I wish, except
what I hate, that is what I do.
16. And if I do what is not my desire to do, I testify regarding the Law, that it
is beautiful.
17. Now, however, it is not I who took this oath, except the sin that abides in me.
18. For I know that it does not abide in me, the pleasure is only in the flesh. That
I desire pleasure, this is natural.* However, to forswear it, I cannot do.
19. For it was not that which is good that I wanted to do, that I did it. Except,
the evil that I did not wish to do, that is what I did.
20. And if I did what I did not want to do, it was not I that did it, except [it
was] the sin that abides in me that did it.
21. I find thus the Law that suits my predilection to do good, because the evil in
near me.
22. For I am happy in the Law of God that is inside a human being's inner self.
23. However, I see another law that is in my members that presents itself against
the Law of my predilection and degrading me to the law of sin that exists in my members.
24. Demon possessed human being [that I am,] who shall deliver me from this dying
flesh?
25. I thus confess to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now thus through my predilection,
I perform according to the Law of God, through my flesh, however, I exist in the
law of sin.
*7:1 Lit. Ar. id.: "My brothers."
*7:4 Lit. Ar. id.: "House of Dead."
*7:5 Lit. Ar. id.: "Sores of sin."
*7:6 Lit. Ar. id.: "We are canceled off from the Law."
*7:8 Lit. Ar. id. construction retained: "Outside Law's ritual sin does not
exist."
*7:9 Lit. Ar. id. figure of speech: "Sin lived."
*7:10 Lit. Ar. id. poetic construction: "And found me the commandment of Living
to die."
*7:14 Lit. Ar. id.: "Sold ... to."
*7:18 Lit. Ar. id. figure of speech: "Straight."
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