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Cuybanile elna yin̈ mac mohyinaxa

Hex wuẍtaj hex wanab, hex tiˈ heyohtaxa ley. Huneˈ ley tuˈ ay yip yiban̈ anma, yajaˈ han̈cˈan̈e yet aycˈo yul sat yiban̈kˈinal tiˈ.

Kˈinalo hunu ix ix mohyinaxa tinan̈, hunbabilxa ix yeb yichamil yu ley, yajaˈ han̈cˈan̈e yet ayicˈo naj yul sat yiban̈kˈinal tiˈ. Yajaˈ ta chicam naj xin, chielcanti ix yalan̈ huneˈ ley hunban̈ecano tuˈ. Yuxin tato itzitzto yichamil ix cat ishunban isba ix yeb hunuxa naj winaj, chaco ismul ix yin̈ hacaˈ tuˈ. Wal ta xacam naj xin waxan̈ca chikˈ ix hunxa yichamil, matxa chaco ix ismul yuto xaelti ix yalan̈ huneˈ ley mohban̈e ix yeb yichamil tuˈ.

Hacon̈ tuˈ hex wuẍtaj hex wanab, yet iscam Comam Jesucristo cocampaxo yebi, yuxin yul sat Comam Dios camomon̈xa tet isley naj Moisés. Wal tinan̈ yeton̈xa Comam Jesucristo, Comam pitzcˈacan̈ xol camom. Hac tuˈ xin haxa tzet choche Comam Dios haˈ chicowatxˈe. Yet yalan̈tocanoj yet ayon̈toco cowatxˈen tzet choche iscˈul huneˈ conimanil tiˈ, haˈ huneˈ ley tuˈ akˈni yochecan̈ janma istxˈojal choche conimanil tiˈ, haˈ xin con̈inito yin̈ camical. Yajaˈ wal tinan̈ xin camnajon̈xa yin̈ huneˈ ley bay ayon̈icto yet yalan̈tocano tuˈ, hac tuˈ xin yu joccano yalan̈ yip huneˈ acˈ beybale yet Comam Espíritu Santo, matxataj yalan̈ ischejbanil ley tzˈibn̈ebilcano yet payat ayon̈icoj.

Istxˈojal ayco jin̈

¿Tzet cheyute hetxumni? ¿Tom txˈoj isley naj Moisés tuˈ, chal tuˈ? ¡Machoj! Wal xin ta machi ley machim wohtajojan tzet challax mulehal. Caw machim wohtajojan ta txˈoj jochenico hunu tzet ye tuˈ ta mach chal ley hacaˈ tiˈ: “Mach chu hawochenico hunu tzet ye tuˈ mach hawetoj,” ẍi. Yu huneˈ chejbanile tiˈ, yuxin pitzcˈa sunil istxˈojal win̈an, wilnilojan wochenicojan tzet ye tuˈ mach cˈuloj. Yuto ta machi ley, machim tzet chal yelapno mule. Yet maẍto wohtajojan ley tuˈ caw itzitzinan, yajaˈ yet wohtan̈enilojan ley tuˈ intxumnilojan ta camominan yul sat Comam Dios. 10 Huneˈ ley tuˈ akˈlaxi yu yakˈni kˈinale, yajaˈ xin haˈ camical yiti wiban̈an. 11 Yu huneˈ ley tuˈ yuxin yikˈ yip mule win̈an, quinyakˈni subchahojan, haˈ xin initi camical wiban̈an yu inmulan.

12 Wal xin yin̈ caw isyelal, huneˈ ley tuˈ yet Comam Dios yehi, hacpax tuˈ xin chejbanile ayco yin̈ yet Comam, caw toholcanoj yeb caw cˈul. 13 ¿Tzet xin chu hetxumni? ¿Tom haˈ huneˈ ley cˈul tuˈ initi camical wiban̈an? ¡Machoj! Walxinto yu isyenilo isba tato caw txˈojcano mule, yuxin yiti camical wiban̈an yu huneˈ mule. Haˈ huneˈ ley cˈul tuˈ, haˈ yeniloj tato caw machiswalilcano mule.

14 Caw johtaj tato haˈ Yespíritu Comam Dios an̈eti huneˈ ley tuˈ, yajaˈ walinan ayinicojan yin̈ huneˈ nimanile yet yul sat yiban̈kˈinal tiˈ, yuxin hacaˈtan̈e txon̈bilinan ischejabo mule. 15 Haˈ tzet chinwatxˈehan mach cˈulo chiwilan, yuto haˈ iscˈulal chiwochehan inwatxˈehan mach chinwatxˈepaxojan. Wal xin haˈ huntekˈan tzet yahbil wuhan haˈ chinwatxˈepaxojan. 16 Yuxin tato haˈ istxˈojal machi wochehan inwatxˈehan haˈ chinwatxˈepaxojan, hac tuˈ chu wohtan̈enilojan tato maẍtaj ley tuˈ txˈoj, to caw cˈul. 17 Yuto maẍtaj‑caw‑inan chinwatxˈehan huntekˈan istxˈojal tuˈ, to haˈ mule ikˈbilticˈa yu huneˈ innimaniltiˈan, haˈ chiwatxˈeni. 18 Caw wohtajan tato huneˈ innimanilan caw mulum tiˈ, machi nino iscˈulal ayco yin̈, yuto hayet chiwochehan inwatxˈenan iscˈulal, mach chu inwatxˈenan. 19 Haˈ iscˈulal chiwochehan inwatxˈeˈan, mach chinwatxˈepaxojan. Wal xin haˈ istxˈojal mach chiwochehan inwatxˈehan, haˈ chinwatxˈepaxojan. 20 Yuxin tato haˈ tzet mach chiwochehan inwatxˈehan, haˈ chinwatxˈepaxojan, maẍtajinan chinwatxˈehan huntekˈan tuˈ, to haxa mule ayco win̈an haˈ chiakˈni wuban.

21 Caw chiwilan tato hayet chinwatxˈenan iscˈulal walnihan, to haˈ istxˈojal chati isba yin̈ insatan. 22 Wal wanmahan, caw chitzala yin̈ isley Comam Dios, 23 yajaˈ xin ay huneˈ tzet chicachni inyijenan, huneˈ ley bay chintzalatuˈan, haˈ ton isley mule ayco win̈an, yuxin hacaˈ preso wehan yu huneˈ mule chichejni wuban istxˈojal.

24 Caw cˈanchˈaninan, ¿mactaxca chu quiniscolnihan yul iskˈab huneˈ camical ayco win̈tiˈan? 25 Wal xin han̈cˈan̈e Comam Dios chu quiniscolnihan, yajaˈ yu Comam Jesucristo Jahawil; yuxin caw chiwakˈan yuchˈandiosal tet Comam. Yuxin chiwohtan̈elojan tato wanmahan choche isyijeˈ yin̈ tzet chal Comam Dios, yaj wal mule ayco win̈an xin haˈ chinijbanan yin̈ istxˈojal.

Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

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? 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) 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.

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. 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) 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

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) 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) 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

  1. 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.
  2. Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
  3. Romans 7:18 Or my flesh
  4. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.