1 As people who are familiar with the Law, brothers, you cannot have forgotten that the law can control a person only during that person's lifetime.
2 A married woman, for instance, is bound to her husband by law, as long as he lives, but when her husband dies all her legal obligation to him as husband is ended.
3 So if she were to have relations with another man while her husband was still alive, she would be termed an adulteress; but if her husband dies, her legal obligation comes to an end and if she then has relations with another man, that does not make her an adulteress.
4 In the same way you, my brothers, through the body of Christ have become dead to the Law and so you are able to belong to someone else, that is, to him who was raised from the dead to make us live fruitfully for God.
5 While we were still living by our natural inclinations, the sinful passions aroused by the Law were working in all parts of our bodies to make us live lives which were fruitful only for death.
6 But now we are released from the Law, having died to what was binding us, and so we are in a new service, that of the spirit, and not in the old service of a written code.
7 What should we say, then? That the Law itself is sin? Out of the question! All the same, if it had not been for the Law, I should not have known what sin was; for instance, I should not have known what it meant to covet if the Law had not said: You are not to covet.
8 But, once it found the opportunity through that commandment, sin produced in me all kinds of covetousness; as long as there is no Law, sin is dead.
9 Once, when there was no Law, I used to be alive; but when the commandment came, sin came to life
10 and I died. The commandment was meant to bring life but I found it brought death,
11 because sin, finding its opportunity by means of the commandment, beguiled me and, by means of it, killed me.
12 So then, the Law is holy, and what it commands is holy and upright and good.
13 Does that mean that something good resulted in my dying? Out of the question! But sin, in order to be identified as sin, caused my death through that good thing, and so it is by means of the commandment that sin shows its unbounded sinful power.
14 We are well aware that the Law is spiritual: but I am a creature of flesh and blood sold as a slave to sin.
15 I do not understand my own behaviour; I do not act as I mean to, but I do things that I hate.
16 While I am acting as I do not want to, I still acknowledge the Law as good,
17 so it is not myself acting, but the sin which lives in me.
18 And really, I know of nothing good living in me -- in my natural self, that is -- for though the will to do what is good is in me, the power to do it is not:
19 the good thing I want to do, I never do; the evil thing which I do not want -- that is what I do.
20 But every time I do what I do not want to, then it is not myself acting, but the sin that lives in me.
21 So I find this rule: that for me, where I want to do nothing but good, evil is close at my side.
22 In my inmost self I dearly love God's law,
23 but I see that acting on my body there is a different law which battles against the law in my mind. So I am brought to be a prisoner of that law of sin which lives inside my body.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body doomed to death?
25 God -- thanks be to him -- through Jesus Christ our Lord. So it is that I myself with my mind obey the law of God, but in my disordered nature I obey the law of sin.
Versículos relacionados com Romans, 7:
Romans 7 addresses the Christian's internal struggle between flesh and spirit. The chapter highlights the sinful nature of the flesh and the inability of man to achieve justice by his own strength. Paul expresses his own battle against sin and his need for a Savior to free him from the slavery of sin.
Psalm 51:5: "Behold, in iniquity I was formed, and in sin my mother conceived me." This verse highlights man's sinful nature from birth and relates to the idea presented in Romans 7:18-20, in which Paul recognizes his sinful nature.
Romans 6:23: "For the salary of sin is death, but God's free gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." This verse highlights the need for salvation by faith in Jesus Christ, a theme that is emphasized in Romans 7:24-25.
Galatians 5:16-17: "But I say,: Walk in the Spirit, and never satisfy the lust of the flesh. For the flesh covets against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and they are opposed to each other, so that Do not do what you want. " This verse relates to the struggle between the flesh and the spirit that is approached in Romans 7:14-23.
Romans 8:2: "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus delivered you from the law of sin and death." This verse highlights the liberation of man from slavery of sin through Jesus Christ, a theme that is presented in Romans 7:24-25.
1 John 1:8-10: "If we say that we have no sin, we ourselves deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us the sins, and us in Purifying from all injustice. If we say that we have not committed sin, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. " This verse highlights the need to recognize the sinful nature itself and to seek salvation in Jesus Christ, themes that are addressed in Romans 7:14-25.
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