Romans 7
1 Or do not you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
¿IGNORAIS, hermanos, (porque hablo con los que saben la ley), que la ley [solamente] se enseñorea del hombre entre tanto que vive?
2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
Porque la mujer que está sujeta á marido, mientras el marido vive esta obligada á la ley; mas muerto el marido, libre es de la ley del marido.
3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
Así que, viviendo el marido, se llamará adultera, si fuere de otro varon; mas si su marido muriere, es libre de la ley; de tal manera que no será adúltera si fuere de otro marido.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
Así tambien vosotros, hermanos mios, estais muertos á la ley por el cuerpo de Cristo, para que seais de otro [á saber, ] del que resucitó de los muertos, á fin de que fructifiquemos á Dios:
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
Porque mientras estábamos en la carne, los afectos de los pecados que eran por la ley, obraban en nuestros miembros fructificando para muerte.
6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Mas ahora estamos libres de la ley habiendo muerto [aquella] en la cual estábamos detenidos, para que sirvamos en novedad de espíritu, y no en vejez de letra.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
¿Qué pues diremos? ¿La ley [es] pecado? En ninguna manera. Empero yo no conocí el pecado sino por la ley; porque tampoco conociera la concupiscencia, si la ley no dijera: No codiciarás.
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Entónces el pecado, tomando ocasion, obró en mí por el mandamiento toda concupiscencia: porque sin la ley el pecado [estaba] muerto.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Así que, yo sin la ley vivia por algun tiempo: mas venido el mandamiento, el pecado revivió, y yo morí.
10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Y hallé que el mandamiento [intimado] para vida, [para mí] era mortal.
11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Porque el pecado, tomando ocasion, me engañó por el mandamiento, y por él [me] mató,
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
De manera que la ley á la verdad [es] santa, y el mandamiento santo, y justo, y bueno.
13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
¿Luego lo que es bueno, á mí me es hecho muerte? No, sino que el pecado para mostrarse pecado, por lo bueno me obró la muerte, haciendose pecado sobremanera pecante por el mandamiento.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Porque [ya] sabemos que la ley es espiritual; mas yo soy carnal, vendido sujecion del pecado.
15 For I do not understand what I am doing. For I do not practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
Porque lo que hago, no [lo] entiendo; ni el [bien] que quiero hago; ántes lo que aborrezco, aquello hago.
16 But if what I do not desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Y si lo que no quiero, esto hago, apruebo que la ley [es] buena:
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
De manera que ya no obro aquello, sino el pecado que mora en mí.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I do not find it doing that which is good.
Y yo sé que en mí (es á saber, en mi carne), no mora el bien: porque tengo el querer: mas efectuar el bien, no lo alcanzo.
19 For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.
Porque no hago el bien que quiero; mas el mal que no quiero, este hago.
20 But if what I do not desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Y si hago lo que no quiero, ya no lo obro yo, sino el pecado que mora en mí.
21 I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Así que queriendo yo hacer el bien, hallo [esta] ley, Que el mal está en mí.
22 For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
Porque segun el hombre interior me deleito en la ley de Dios;
23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
Mas veo otra ley en mis miembros que se rebela contra la ley de mi espíritu, y que me lleva cautivo á la ley del pecado que está en mis miembros.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
¡Miserable hombre de mí! ¿Quién me librará del cuerpo de esta muerte?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
Gracias doy á Dios, por Jesu-Cristo Señor nuestro. Así que yo mismo con la mente sirvo á la ley de Dios, mas con la carne á la ley del pecado.
