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脱离律法的约束归属基督

弟兄们,我对懂得律法的人说,你们不晓得律法管辖人,是在他活着的期间吗? 一个已婚的妇人,在丈夫活着的时候,她是受律法约束归属丈夫;丈夫若死了,她就脱离丈夫在律法上的约束。 所以,当丈夫还活着的时候,如果她归属别的男人,就称为淫妇;丈夫若死了,她就脱离了律法的约束,如果她归属别的男人,也不是淫妇。 这样,我的弟兄们,你们借着基督的身体,对律法来说也已经死了,使你们归属另一位,就是那从死人中复活的,为的是要我们结果子给 神。 我们从前属肉体的时候,罪恶的情欲借着律法在我们的肢体里发动,就结出死亡的果子。 但现在,我们既然向那捆绑我们的律法死了,就脱离了律法的约束,好让我们用心灵的新样子,而不用仪文的旧方式来服事主。

善恶两律在心中交战

这样,我们可以说甚么呢?难道律法是罪吗?绝对不是。不过,如果不是借着律法,我就不知道甚么是罪;如果不是律法说“不可贪心”,我就不知道甚么是贪心。 但罪趁着机会,借着诫命在我里面发动各样的贪心,因为没有律法,罪是死的。 在没有律法的时候,我是活的;但诫命一来,罪就活了,我就死了。 10 那本来使人活的诫命,反而使我死了; 11 因为罪借着诫命把握着机会来欺骗我,并且杀了我。 12 这样,律法是圣洁的,诫命也是圣洁、公义和良善的。

13 既是这样,那良善的反而使我死吗?绝对不是!但罪借着那良善的使我死,就显出真是罪,为了要使罪借着诫命变成更加邪恶。 14 我们知道律法是属灵的,我却是属肉体的,已经卖给罪了。 15 因为我所作的,我不明白;我所愿意的,我没有去作,我所恨恶的,我倒去作。 16 如果我所不愿意的,我倒去作,我就不得不承认律法是好的。 17 既是这样,那就不是我作的,而是住在我里面的罪作的。 18 我知道在我里面,就是在我肉体之中,没有良善,因为立志行善由得我,行出来却由不得我。 19 所以我愿意行的善,我没有去行;我不愿意作的恶,我倒去作了。 20 我若作自己不愿意作的事,那就不是我作的,而是住在我里面的罪作的。 21 因此,我发现了一个律,就是我想向善的时候,恶就在我里面出现。 22 按着我里面的人来说,我是喜欢 神的律, 23 但我发觉肢体中另有一个律,和我心中的律争战,把我掳去附从肢体中的罪律。 24 我这个人真是苦啊!谁能救我脱离这使我死亡的身体呢? 25 感谢 神,借着我们的主耶稣基督就能脱离了。可见,一方面我自己心里服事 神的律,另一方面我的肉体却服事罪的律。

Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

Do you not know, brothers and sisters(A)—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 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.(B) So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.(C) But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law(D) through the body of Christ,(E) that you might belong to another,(F) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a](G) the sinful passions aroused by the law(H) were at work in us,(I) so that we bore fruit for death.(J) But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law(K) so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.(L)

The Law and Sin

What shall we say, then?(M) Is the law sinful? Certainly not!(N) Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.(O) For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[b](P) But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(Q) produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.(R) 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(S) actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(T) deceived me,(U) and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.(V)

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(W) to bring about my death,(X) so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual,(Y) sold(Z) as a slave to sin.(AA) 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.(AB) 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.(AC) 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.(AD) 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c](AE) 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.(AF) 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.(AG)

21 So I find this law at work:(AH) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being(AI) I delight in God’s law;(AJ) 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war(AK) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin(AL) at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(AM) 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(AN)

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,(AO) but in my sinful nature[d] a slave to the law of sin.(AP)

Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  2. Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
  3. Romans 7:18 Or my flesh
  4. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh

Freed from the Law

Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law [a]has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For (A)the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. So then (B)if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become (C)dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should (D)bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law (E)were at work in our members (F)to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve (G)in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

Sin’s Advantage in the Law

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, (H)I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, (I)“You shall not covet.” But (J)sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For (K)apart from the law sin was dead. I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, (L)which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore (M)the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Law Cannot Save from Sin

13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, (N)sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. (O)For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that (P)in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I (Q)delight in the law of God according to (R)the inward man. 23 But (S)I see another law in (T)my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me (U)from this body of death? 25 (V)I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:1 rules