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Bréf Páls til Rómverja 7
Icelandic Bible
Bréf Páls til Rómverja 7
Icelandic Bible
7 Vitið þér ekki, bræður, _ ég er hér að tala til þeirra, sem lögmál þekkja, _ að lögmálið drottnar yfir manninum svo lengi sem hann lifir.
2 Gift kona er að lögum bundin manni sínum, meðan hann lifir. En deyi maðurinn, er hún leyst undan lögmálinu, sem bindur hana við manninn.
3 Því mun hún hórkona teljast, ef hún, að manninum lifandi, verður annars manns. En deyi maðurinn er hún laus undan lögmálinu, svo að hún er ekki hórkona, þótt hún verði annars manns.
4 Eins er um yður, bræður mínir. Þér eruð dánir lögmálinu fyrir líkama Krists, til þess að verða öðrum gefnir, honum sem var upp vakinn frá dauðum, svo að vér mættum bera Guði ávöxt.
5 Þegar vér lifðum að holdsins hætti, störfuðu ástríður syndanna, sem lögmálið hafði vakið, í limum vorum, svo að vér bærum dauðanum ávöxt.
6 En nú erum vér leystir undan lögmálinu, þar sem vér erum dánir því, sem áður hélt oss bundnum, og þjónum í nýjung anda, en ekki í fyrnsku bókstafs.
7 Hvað eigum vér þá að segja? Er lögmálið synd? Fjarri fer því. En satt er það: Ég þekkti ekki syndina nema fyrir lögmálið. Ég hefði ekki vitað um girndina, hefði ekki lögmálið sagt: "Þú skalt ekki girnast."
8 En syndin sætti lagi og vakti í mér alls kyns girnd með boðorðinu. Án lögmáls er syndin dauð.
9 Ég lifði einu sinni án lögmáls, en er boðorðið kom lifnaði syndin við,
10 en ég dó. Og boðorðið, sem átti að verða til lífs, það reyndist mér vera til dauða.
11 Því að syndin sætti lagi, dró mig á tálar með boðorðinu og deyddi mig með því.
12 Þannig er þá lögmálið heilagt og boðorðið heilagt, réttlátt og gott.
13 Varð þá hið góða mér til dauða? Fjarri fer því! Nei, það var syndin. Til þess að hún birtist sem synd, olli hún mér dauða með því, sem gott er. Þannig skyldi syndin verða yfir sig syndug fyrir boðorðið.
14 Vér vitum, að lögmálið er andlegt, en ég er holdlegur, seldur undir syndina.
15 Því að ég veit ekki, hvað ég aðhefst. Það sem ég vil, það gjöri ég ekki, en það sem ég hata, það gjöri ég.
16 En ef ég nú gjöri einmitt það, sem ég vil ekki, þá er ég samþykkur lögmálinu, að það sé gott.
17 En nú er það ekki framar ég sjálfur, sem gjöri þetta, heldur syndin, sem í mér býr.
18 Ég veit, að ekki býr neitt gott í mér, það er, í holdi mínu. Að vilja veitist mér auðvelt, en ekki að framkvæma hið góða.
19 Hið góða, sem ég vil, gjöri ég ekki, en hið vonda, sem ég vil ekki, það gjöri ég.
20 En ef ég gjöri það, sem ég vil ekki, þá er það ekki lengur ég sjálfur, sem framkvæmi það, heldur syndin, sem í mér býr.
21 Þannig reynist mér það þá regla fyrir mig, sem vil gjöra hið góða, að hið illa er mér tamast.
22 Innra með mér hef ég mætur á lögmáli Guðs,
23 en ég sé annað lögmál í limum mínum, sem berst á móti lögmáli hugar míns og hertekur mig undir lögmál syndarinnar í limum mínum.
24 Ég aumur maður! Hver mun frelsa mig frá þessum dauðans líkama?
25 Ég þakka Guði fyrir Jesú Krist, Drottin vorn. Svo þjóna ég þá sjálfur lögmáli Guðs með huga mínum, en lögmáli syndarinnar með holdinu.
Romans 7
New International Version
Romans 7
New International Version
Released From the Law, Bound to Christ
7 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? 2 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) 3 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.
4 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. 5 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) 6 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
7 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) 8 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) 9 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
- 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.
- Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
- Romans 7:18 Or my flesh
- Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh
Romans 7
King James Version
Romans 7
King James Version
7 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?
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 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.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 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.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 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.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 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.
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