Romans

弟兄們，我現在對明白律法的人說，你們豈不曉得律法管人是在活著的時候麼？

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

就如女人有了丈夫，丈夫還活著，就被律法約束；丈夫若死了，就脫離了丈夫的律法。

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to {her} husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of {her} husband.

所以丈夫活著，他若歸於別人，便叫淫婦；丈夫若死了，他就脫離了丈夫的律法，雖然歸於別人，也不是淫婦。

So then if, while {her} husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

我的弟兄們，這樣說來，你們藉著基督的身體，在律法上也是死了，叫你們歸於別人，就是歸於那從死裡復活的，叫我們結果子給神。

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, {even} to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

因為我們屬肉體的時候，那因律法而生的惡慾就在我們肢體中發動，以致結成死亡的果子。

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. {motions: Gr. passions}

但我們既然在捆我們的律法上死了，現今就脫離了律法，叫我們服事主，要按著心靈（心靈：或作聖靈）的新樣，不按著儀文的舊樣。

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not {in} the oldness of the letter. {that being...: or, being dead to that}

這樣，我們可說甚麼呢？律法是罪麼？斷乎不是！只是非因律法，我就不知何為罪。非律法說不可起貪心，我就不知何為貪心。

What shall we say then? {Is} the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. {lust: or, concupiscence}

然而罪趁著機會，就藉著誡命叫諸般的貪心在我裡頭發動；因為沒有律法，罪是死的。

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin {was} dead.

我以前沒有律法是活著的；但是誡命來到，罪又活了，我就死了。

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

那本來叫人活的誡命，反倒叫我死；

And the commandment, which {was ordained} to life, I found {to be} unto death.

因為罪趁著機會，就藉著誡命引誘我，並且殺了我。

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.

這樣看來，律法是聖潔的，誡命也是聖潔、公義、良善的。

Wherefore the law {is} holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

既然如此，那良善的是叫我死麼？斷乎不是！叫我死的乃是罪。但罪藉著那良善的叫我死，就顯出真是罪，叫罪因著誡命更顯出是惡極了。

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

我們原曉得律法是屬乎靈的，但我是屬乎肉體的，是已經賣給罪了。

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

因為我所做的，我自己不明白；我所願意的，我並不做；我所恨惡的，我倒去做。

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. {allow: Gr. know}

若我所做的，是我所不願意的，我就應承律法是善的。

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that {it is} good.

既是這樣，就不是我做的，乃是住在我裡頭的罪做的。

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

我也知道在我裡頭，就是我肉體之中，沒有良善。因為，立志為善由得我，只是行出來由不得我。

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but {how} to perform that which is good I find not.

故此，我所願意的善，我反不做；我所不願意的惡，我倒去做。

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

若我去做所不願意做的，就不是我做的，乃是住在我裡頭的罪做的。

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

我覺得有個律，就是我願意為善的時候，便有惡與我同在。

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

因為按著我裡面的意思（原文是人），我是喜歡神的律；

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

但我覺得肢體中另有個律和我心中的律交戰，把我擄去，叫我附從那肢體中犯罪的律。

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

我真是苦阿！誰能救我脫離這取死的身體呢？

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? {the body...: or, this body of death}

感謝神，靠著我們的主耶穌基督就能脫離了。這樣看來，我以內心順服神的律，我肉體卻順服罪的律了。

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.