Romans, 7

1. Or do you not know, brothers, (now I am speaking to those who know the law) that the law has dominion over a man only so long as he lives?

1. Ili zar ne znate, braæo - poznavaocima zakona govorim - da zakon gospodari èovjekom samo za vrijeme njegova života.

2. For example, a woman who is subject to a husband is obligated by the law while her husband lives. But when her husband has died, she is released from the law of her husband.

2. Doista, udana je žena vezana zakonom dok joj muž živi; umre li joj muž, riješena je zakona o mužu.

3. Therefore, while her husband lives, if she has been with another man, she should be called an adulteress. But when her husband has died, she is freed from the law of her husband, such that, if she has been with another man, she is not an adulteress.

3. Dakle: dok joj muž živi, zvat æe se, oèito, preljubnicom poðe li za drugoga. Ako li joj pak muž umre, slobodna je od zakona te nije preljubnica poðe li za drugoga.

4. And so, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law, through the body of Christ, so that you may be another one who has risen from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

4. Tako, braæo moja, i vi po tijelu Kristovu umrijeste Zakonu da pripadnete drugomu, Onomu koji je od mrtvih uskrišen, te plodove donosimo Bogu.

5. For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

5. Doista, dok bijasmo u tijelu, grešne su strasti, Zakonom izazvane, djelovale u našim udovima te smrti donosile plodove;

6. But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by the letter.

6. sada pak umrijevši onomu što nas je sputavalo, riješeni smo Zakona te služimo u novosti Duha, a ne u stareži slova.

7. What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: “You shall not covet.”

7. Što æemo dakle reæi? Je li Zakon grijeh? Nipošto! Nego: grijeha ne spoznah doli po Zakonu jer za požudu ne bih znao da Zakon nije govorio: Ne poželi!

8. But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

8. A grijeh je, uhvativši priliku, po zapovijedi u meni prouzroèio svakovrsnu požudu. Ta bez zakona grijeh je mrtav.

9. Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,

9. Da, ja sam nekoæ živio bez zakona. Ali kad je došla zapovijed, grijeh oživje.

10. and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me.

10. Ja pak umrijeh i ustanovi se: zapovijed dana za život bi mi na smrt.

11. For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me.

11. Doista grijeh, uhvativši priliku, zapovijeðu me zavede, njome me i ubi.

12. And so, the law itself is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

12. Tako: Zakon je svet, i zapovijed je sveta, i pravedna, i dobra.

13. Then was what is good made into death for me? Let it not be so! But rather sin, in order that it might be known as sin by what is good, wrought death in me; so that sin, through the commandment, might become sinful beyond measure.

13. Pa zar se to dobro meni u smrt prometnu? Nipošto! Nego: grijeh, da se grijehom oèituje, po tom dobru uzrokuje mi smrt - da grijeh po zapovijedi postane najveæim grešnikom.

14. For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

14. Zakon je, znamo, duhovan; ja sam pak tjelesan, prodan pod grijeh.

15. For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.

15. Zbilja ne razumijem što radim: ta ne èinim ono što bih htio, nego što mrzim - to èinim.

16. So, when I do what I do not want to do, I am in agreement with the law, that the law is good.

16. Ako li pak èinim što ne bih htio, slažem se sa Zakonom, priznajem da je dobar.

17. But I am then acting not according to the law, but according to the sin which lives within me.

17. Onda to ne èinim više ja, nego grijeh koji prebiva u meni.

18. For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach.

18. Doista znam da dobro ne prebiva u meni, to jest u mojem tijelu. Uistinu: htjeti mi ide, ali ne i èiniti dobro.

19. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.

19. Ta ne èinim dobro koje bih htio, nego zlo koje ne bih htio - to èinim.

20. Now if I do what I am not willing to do, it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin which lives within me.

20. Ako li pak èinim ono što ne bih htio, nipošto to ne radim ja, nego grijeh koji prebiva u meni.

21. And so, I discover the law, by wanting to do good within myself, though evil lies close beside me.

21. Nalazim dakle ovaj zakon: kad bih htio èiniti dobro, nameæe mi se zlo.

22. For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inner man.

22. Po nutarnjem èovjeku s užitkom se slažem sa Zakonom Božjim,

23. But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.

23. ali opažam u svojim udovima drugi zakon koji vojuje protiv zakona uma moga i zarobljuje me zakonom grijeha koji je u mojim udovima.

24. Unhappy man that I am, who will free me from this body of death?

24. Jadan li sam ja èovjek! Tko æe me istrgnuti iz ovoga tijela smrtonosnoga?

25. The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord! Therefore, I serve the law of God with my own mind; but with the flesh, the law of sin.

25. Hvala Bogu po Isusu Kristu Gospodinu našem! Ja, dakle, umom ja služim zakonu Božjemu, a tijelom zakonu grijeha.