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Yak ri xeltak laj jkˈabˈ Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios

Atak wechˈelxic chirij Kakaj Jesucristo, awetamakiˈ chi mak pixabˈ xike titakon chibˈ jun cristian cuando aj yoˈlna.

Jilon chapcaˈ jun anm ri cˈuliˈnak, wi aj yoˈliˈ richjil, man pixabˈ re cˈulniquil tijbˈij chi taˈ tijnaˈ ticˈuliˈy riqˈui jun jalan winak chic. Pero wi xcam richjil, man anm li taˈ chiquiˈ laj jkˈabˈ man pixabˈ re cˈulniquil. Jwiˈliˈli wi jun anm ticˈuliˈy riqˈui jono winak chic y aj yoˈliˈ richjil timacuniˈn. Pero wi xcam richjil man anm li, tijnaˈ ticˈuliˈy chic y man pixabˈ re cˈulniquil tijbˈij chi taˈ timacunc.

Y jiˈcˈulon atak wechˈelxic chirij Kakaj Jesucristo, nicˈ riqˈuil xatcamtakaˈ cuando xateltak laj jkˈabˈ mak Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios jwiˈl xcam Kakaj Jesucristo wich curs pi cristianil pire xatoctak laj jkˈabˈ Kakaj Jesucristo ri xcˈastasaj jwich laj jcamnakl xoˈlak camnakibˈ pire tabˈantak lawiˈ ri tzi tril Kakaj Dios.

Cuando ajwojtakaˈ laj jkˈabˈ kamac ojr xkabˈanaˈtakaˈ lawiˈ chikaj oj xkabˈantak jwiˈl Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios xbˈit jwichak mak etzltak raybˈl ri wiˈ laj kanm. Jwiˈliˈli nicˈ riqˈuil xojcˈambˈi pi camic. Pero lajori nicˈ riqˈuil xojcamiˈ jwiˈl taˈ chiquiˈ titakon chikabˈ mak Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios, wojchak laj jkˈabˈ Kakaj Dios pire tikabˈantak lawiˈ raj tikabˈantak jwiˈl Lokˈlaj Jsantil Kakaj Dios xanaˈ aacˈ re kacˈaslemal y maˈ riˈ taˈ chiquiˈ tikabˈan lawiˈ ri tijbˈij mak pixabˈ ri tzˈibˈal.

Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios y mak mac ri tikabˈantak

Taˈ tijnaˈ tikabˈijtak chi riˈ Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios tibˈanow chike ojmacunc. Miti jwiˈl Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios in taˈ roj xwetemaj lawiˈ ri mac chiwch Kakaj Dios y taˈ roj xwetemaj cuando tijbˈij jilonri:
    Ma rayaj jwich lawiˈ re jun cristian chic, ticheˈ.

Pero man mac riˈ xcoj Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios pire xbˈit jwich juntir jwich raybˈl ri wiˈ laj wanm. Jiˈcˈulonli miti wiˈ Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios, taˈ roj xcˈutun chi wiˈ mac. Ojr cuando taˈ wetam nen mo jcholajl ri tijbˈij Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios, yoˈlquinke pi jilonli. Pero cuando xwetemaj jcholajl nen tijbˈij Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios, jilonli xcˈutun immac, 10 jwiˈliˈli nicˈ riqˈuil iniˈ camnak chiwch Kakaj Dios. Y Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios pi jqˈuexwach xcˈut chinwch nen mo jtaˈic tzilaj cˈaslemal, roj xinjcˈambˈi pi camic. 11 Jwiˈl man mac riˈ xcoj mak pixabˈ li pire xinjsubˈ y nicˈ riqˈuil xinjcamsaj.

12 Jilonli xketemaj chi Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios saklaj tzijiˈn, pi jcholajliˈ ri tijbˈij y tziyiˈn.

13 ¿Xwuxcˈu tzilaj Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios pi mitaˈ tzi pire roj xinjcˈambˈi pi camic? ¡Maˈ jiˈtaˈlonli! Riˈ man mac xcoj mak tzilaj pixabˈ li pire roj xincˈamowbˈi pi camic. Jwiˈl Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios xel chi sakil chi man mac kes tzˈetel tzˈet maquiˈn. 14 Ketamiˈ chi mak pixabˈ li, jiˈ xpe riqˈui Kakaj Dios, pero in, inke jun cristian ri win laj jkˈabˈ immac chapcaˈ jun cristian ri wiˈ rajw. 15 In taˈ wetam nen tijin tambˈan, chwaj tambˈan lawiˈ ri tzi, pero pi jqˈuexwach tambˈan lawiˈ ri tzi, riˈ tambˈan ri mitaˈ tzi ri taˈ chwaj tambˈan. 16 Cuando riˈ tambˈan mak ri taˈ chwaj in tambˈan, twetemajiˈ chi Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios tziyiˈn. 17 Jilonli maˈ laj innoˈj taˈ chiquiˈ tipeˈw cuando immacunc, riˈ man mac ri wiˈ laj wanm intakchiˈn chi macunc.

18 In wetamiˈ chi taˈ ni junquitz tzi wiˈ laj wanm jwiˈl inke cristian. Jwiˈliˈli in rajti wanm tambˈan lawiˈ ri tzi, pero taˈ incwin chi jbˈanic. 19 Taˈ tambˈan lawiˈ ri tzi ri chwaj in tambˈan, riˈ chiquiˈ tambˈan ri mitaˈ tzi ri taˈ chwaj in tambˈan. 20 Pero wi tijin tambˈan lawiˈ ri taˈ tzi, ri taˈ chwaj in tambˈan, riˈ li ticˈutuw chi maˈ laj innoˈj taˈke tipeˈw ri tambˈan, riˈ man mac ri wiˈ laj wanm tibˈanow chwe. 21 Jilonli xwetemaj chi cuando chwaj in tambˈan lawiˈ ri tzi, riˈ chiquiˈ tambˈan mak etzltak noˈj ri taˈ chwaj tambˈan. 22 Subˈlaj inquiˈcot laj wanm jwiˈl Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios. 23 Pero in twicˈaj chi wiˈ jun jalan pixabˈ laj wanm y riˈ man pixabˈ li tichˈoˈjin pach mak tzitaklaj noˈj ri wiˈ laj inchomorsaˈn y riˈ man pixabˈ li tibˈanow chwe chapcaˈ in jun prex jwiˈl man pixabˈ re mac.

24 ¡Cˈur inwch jwiˈl taˈ nen incolow laj jkˈabˈ man camic ri wiˈ laj intioˈjl ri tina camna! 25 Pero cˈomo re Kakaj Dios jwiˈl Kakaj Jesucristo ri Kajawl, xinjcol laj jkˈabˈ man camic. Laj inchomorsaˈn winiˈ laj jkˈabˈ mak Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios, pero riˈ intioˈjl tijyeˈ ribˈ laj jkˈabˈ man mac.

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.