رُوما 7

١ 1 أَمْ تَجْهَلُونَ أَيُّهَا ٱلْإِخْوَةُ - لِأَنِّي أُكَلِّمُ ٱلْعَارِفِينَ بِٱلنَّامُوسِ - أَنَّ ٱلنَّامُوسَ يَسُودُ عَلَى ٱلْإِنْسَانِ مَا دَامَ حَيًّا؟

Or don’t 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?

٢ 2 فَإِنَّ ٱلْمَرْأَةَ ٱلَّتِي تَحْتَ رَجُلٍ هِيَ مُرْتَبِطَةٌ بِٱلنَّامُوسِ بِٱلرَّجُلِ ٱلْحَيِّ. وَلَكِنْ إِنْ مَاتَ ٱلرَّجُلُ فَقَدْ تَحَرَّرَتْ مِنْ نَامُوسِ ٱلرَّجُلِ.

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.

٣ 3 فَإِذًا مَا دَامَ ٱلرَّجُلُ حَيًّا تُدْعَى زَانِيَةً إِنْ صَارَتْ لِرَجُلٍ آخَرَ. وَلَكِنْ إِنْ مَاتَ ٱلرَّجُلُ فَهِيَ حُرَّةٌ مِنَ ٱلنَّامُوسِ، حَتَّى إِنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ زَانِيَةً إِنْ صَارَتْ لِرَجُلٍ آخَرَ.

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.

٤ 4 إِذًا يَا إِخْوَتِي أَنْتُمْ أَيْضًا قَدْ مُتُّمْ لِلنَّامُوسِ بِجَسَدِ ٱلْمَسِيحِ، لِكَيْ تَصِيرُوا لِآخَرَ، لِلَّذِي قَدْ أُقِيمَ مِنَ ٱلْأَمْوَاتِ لِنُثْمِرَ لِلهِ.

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.

٥ 5 لِأَنَّهُ لَمَّا كُنَّا فِي ٱلْجَسَدِ كَانَتْ أَهْوَاءُ ٱلْخَطَايَا ٱلَّتِي بِٱلنَّامُوسِ تَعْمَلُ فِي أَعْضَائِنَا، لِكَيْ نُثْمِرَ لِلْمَوْتِ.

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.

٦ 6 وَأَمَّا ٱلْآنَ فَقَدْ تَحَرَّرْنَا مِنَ ٱلنَّامُوسِ، إِذْ مَاتَ ٱلَّذِي كُنَّا مُمْسَكِينَ فِيهِ، حَتَّى نَعْبُدَ بِجِدَّةِ ٱلرُّوحِ لَا بِعِتْقِ ٱلْحَرْفِ.

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.

٧ 7 فَمَاذَا نَقُولُ؟ هَلِ ٱلنَّامُوسُ خَطِيَّةٌ؟ حَاشَا! بَلْ لَمْ أَعْرِفِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةَ إِلَّا بِٱلنَّامُوسِ. فَإِنَّنِي لَمْ أَعْرِفِ ٱلشَّهْوَةَ لَوْ لَمْ يَقُلِ ٱلنَّامُوسُ: «لَا تَشْتَهِ».

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

٨ 8 وَلَكِنَّ ٱلْخَطِيَّةَ وَهِيَ مُتَّخِذَةٌ فُرْصَةً بِٱلْوَصِيَّةِ أَنْشَأَتْ فِيَّ كُلَّ شَهْوَةٍ. لِأَنْ بِدُونِ ٱلنَّامُوسِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ مَيِّتَةٌ.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

٩ 9 أَمَّا أَنَا فَكُنْتُ بِدُونِ ٱلنَّامُوسِ عَائِشًا قَبْلًا. وَلَكِنْ لَمَّا جَاءَتِ ٱلْوَصِيَّةُ عَاشَتِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ، فَمُتُّ أَنَا،

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

١٠ 10 فَوُجِدَتِ ٱلْوَصِيَّةُ ٱلَّتِي لِلْحَيَاةِ هِيَ نَفْسُهَا لِي لِلْمَوْتِ.

The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;

١١ 11 لِأَنَّ ٱلْخَطِيَّةَ، وَهِيَ مُتَّخِذَةٌ فُرْصَةً بِٱلْوَصِيَّةِ، خَدَعَتْنِي بِهَا وَقَتَلَتْنِي.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

١٢ 12 إِذًا ٱلنَّامُوسُ مُقَدَّسٌ، وَٱلْوَصِيَّةُ مُقَدَّسَةٌ وَعَادِلَةٌ وَصَالِحَةٌ.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.

١٣ 13 فَهَلْ صَارَ لِي ٱلصَّالِحُ مَوْتًا؟ حَاشَا! بَلِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ. لِكَيْ تَظْهَرَ خَطِيَّةً مُنْشِئَةً لِي بِٱلصَّالِحِ مَوْتًا، لِكَيْ تَصِيرَ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ خَاطِئَةً جِدًّا بِٱلْوَصِيَّةِ.

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.

١٤ 14 فَإِنَّنَا نَعْلَمُ أَنَّ ٱلنَّامُوسَ رُوحِيٌّ، وَأَمَّا أَنَا فَجَسَدِيٌّ مَبِيعٌ تَحْتَ ٱلْخَطِيَّةِ.

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

١٥ 15 لِأَنِّي لَسْتُ أَعْرِفُ مَا أَنَا أَفْعَلُهُ، إِذْ لَسْتُ أَفْعَلُ مَا أُرِيدُهُ، بَلْ مَا أُبْغِضُهُ فَإِيَّاهُ أَفْعَلُ.

For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practise what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

١٦ 16 فَإِنْ كُنْتُ أَفْعَلُ مَا لَسْتُ أُرِيدُهُ، فَإِنِّي أُصَادِقُ ٱلنَّامُوسَ أَنَّهُ حَسَنٌ.

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

١٧ 17 فَٱلْآنَ لَسْتُ بَعْدُ أَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ أَنَا، بَلِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ ٱلسَّاكِنَةُ فِيَّ.

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

١٨ 18 فَإِنِّي أَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ سَاكِنٌ فِيَّ، أَيْ فِي جَسَدِي، شَيْءٌ صَالِحٌ. لِأَنَّ ٱلْإِرَادَةَ حَاضِرَةٌ عِنْدِي، وَأَمَّا أَنْ أَفْعَلَ ٱلْحُسْنَى فَلَسْتُ أَجِدُ.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

١٩ 19 لِأَنِّي لَسْتُ أَفْعَلُ ٱلصَّالِحَ ٱلَّذِي أُرِيدُهُ، بَلِ ٱلشَّرَّ ٱلَّذِي لَسْتُ أُرِيدُهُ فَإِيَّاهُ أَفْعَلُ.

For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practise.

٢٠ 20 فَإِنْ كُنْتُ مَا لَسْتُ أُرِيدُهُ إِيَّاهُ أَفْعَلُ، فَلَسْتُ بَعْدُ أَفْعَلُهُ أَنَا، بَلِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ ٱلسَّاكِنَةُ فِيَّ.

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

٢١ 21 إِذًا أَجِدُ ٱلنَّامُوسَ لِي حِينَمَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَفْعَلَ ٱلْحُسْنَى أَنَّ ٱلشَّرَّ حَاضِرٌ عِنْدِي.

I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

٢٢ 22 فَإِنِّي أُسَرُّ بِنَامُوسِ ٱللهِ بِحَسَبِ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ ٱلْبَاطِنِ.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,

٢٣ 23 وَلَكِنِّي أَرَى نَامُوسًا آخَرَ فِي أَعْضَائِي يُحَارِبُ نَامُوسَ ذِهْنِي، وَيَسْبِينِي إِلَى نَامُوسِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةِ ٱلْكَائِنِ فِي أَعْضَائِي.

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.

٢٤ 24 وَيْحِي أَنَا ٱلْإِنْسَانُ ٱلشَّقِيُّ! مَنْ يُنْقِذُنِي مِنْ جَسَدِ هَذَا ٱلْمَوْتِ؟

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

٢٥ 25 أَشْكُرُ ٱللهَ بِيَسُوعَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ رَبِّنَا! إِذًا أَنَا نَفْسِي بِذِهْنِي أَخْدِمُ نَامُوسَ ٱللهِ، وَلَكِنْ بِٱلْجَسَدِ نَامُوسَ ٱلْخَطِيَّةِ.

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.