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Jun cˈambel naˈoj elesan chrij ri cˈulanen

Wachˈalal, riyix can iwetaman achique nubij ri ley ri xuyaˈ ri Dios, y chukaˈ iwetaman chi jun winek xaxu (xaxe wi) tek cˈa qˈues na, cˈo chuxeˈ rutzij ri ley riˈ. Achiˈel ri nubij chupan ri ley riˈ, chi jun ixok can ximil wi riqˈui ri rachijil y ma utz ta chi niquijech quiˈ riqˈui, tek xa cˈa qˈues na ri rachijil. Pero wi nicom el ri rachijil, ri ixok nicanaj ca libre chuwech ri ley riche (rixin) ri cˈulanen. Pero wi nucˈom ruwech jun chic achi tek xa cˈa qˈues na ri rachijil, nimacun. Yacˈa wi caminek chic ri rachijil, ri ley riˈ nubij chi ma mac ta nuben ri ixok riˈ tek nicˈuleˈ riqˈui jun chic achi.

Wachˈalal, can queriˈ chukaˈ kabanon riyoj. Riyoj can xojcom chuwech ri ley tek xcom ri Cristo. Y rumariˈ ma yojcˈo ta chic chuxeˈ ri ley, xa can yoj riche (rixin) chic ri Cristo, ri xcˈastej pe chiquicojol ri caminakiˈ. Y ruma yoj riche (rixin) chic ri Cristo, can tiwachin cˈa ri kacˈaslen; can achiˈel ri nrajoˈ ri Dios. Tek rubanon ca, ya ri itzel tak karaybel ri xekabanalaˈ, y ri nubij ri ley chi xa mac, xa ye mac riˈ ri xeˈucusan ri kakˈaˈ kaken chubanic ri itzel tak raynic, y ri mac riˈ xa camic xucˈom pe pa kawiˈ. Tek rubanon ca, xojcˈojeˈ chuxeˈ ri ruley ri Moisés; yacˈa re wacami xojcolotej yan y xojcom chuwech ri nubij ri ley riˈ. Y nikaben rusamaj ri Dios pero riqˈui chic ri cˈacˈacˈ cˈaslen ri niyaˈox (nyaˈ) chake ruma ri Lokˈolaj Espíritu. Y ma riqˈui ta chic ri nubij ri ley ri tzˈibatal ca.

Ri ruley ri Dios y ri mac

Y riqˈui jubaˈ nikˈax chiwech chi ri ley xa itzel, pero ma que ta riˈ. Ri ley nicˈatzin riche (rixin) chi nukˈalajsaj ri mac. Wi man ta cˈo ri ley, riyin man ta wetaman achique riˈ ri mac. Achiˈel tek nubij ri ley: Ma tarayij ta riyit ri cˈo riqˈui jun chic. Y ruma queriˈ nubij, wetaman chi wi xtinben queriˈ, yimacun chuwech ri Dios. Man ta nubij queriˈ, man ta wetaman chi mac. Pero ruma chupan ri ley queriˈ nubij, rumariˈ xbecˈulun pe ri mac ri cˈo pa wánima. Xuben chuwe chi xbecˈastej pe ronojel quiwech itzel tak raybel ri yecˈo wuqˈui. Man ta cˈo ri ley, caminek ta ri mac ri cˈo pa wánima. Ri ojer ca, tek ma jane kˈaxnek ta chinuwech ri nubij ri ley, riyin xinchˈob chi cˈo nucˈaslen. Yacˈa ri kˈij tek xkˈax chinuwech ri nubij ri ley, yacˈariˈ tek xpe más ruchukˈaˈ ri mac ri xa can cˈo wi pa wánima, y cˈacˈariˈ xinnabej chi xa yin caminek ajcˈa chuwech ri Dios. 10 Ri ley ri xuyaˈ pe ri Dios, nucˈut cˈa achique rubanic riche (rixin) chi nilitej ri cˈaslen. Yacˈa riyin xa camic ri xinwil, ruma ma xicowin ta xinben ri nubij ri ley. 11 Ruma ri mac ya ri ley ri xucusaj riche (rixin) chi xirukˈol, y riqˈui riˈ xa can xirucamisaj. 12 Ri ley can lokˈolaj wi; can utz wi y choj ri nubij.

13 ¿La nbij ta cami cˈa chi ri utzilaj ley xucˈom pe camic chuwe? Ma que ta riˈ. Xa ya cˈa ri mac ri xcˈamo pe ri camic, ruma xuben chuwe chi ma xinnimaj ta ri nubij ri utzilaj ley. Y riqˈui riˈ ri ley xucˈut cˈa chinuwech achique riˈ ri mac; y queriˈ, nikˈalajin chi ri mac can itzel wi.

14 Ketaman chi ri ley riqˈui ri Dios petenak wi. Yacˈa riyin xa yin jun winek ri yincˈo pa rukˈaˈ ri mac. 15 Ma nikˈax ta cˈa chinuwech achique ruma tek quereˈ nben. Ruma astapeˈ nwajoˈ nben ri utz, xa yariˈ ri ma nben ta y xa ya cˈa ri itzel nnaˈ chare, xa yeriˈ ri yenbanalaˈ. 16 Y wi xa ya ri itzel nnaˈ chare, xa yeriˈ ri yenbanalaˈ, riqˈui reˈ nikˈax chinuwech chi ri ley can utz wi. 17 Y rumariˈ yicowin nbij chi ma nuyon ta riyin ri yibano ri mac, xa can ya chic ri mac ri cˈo pa wánima ri nibano chuwe chi nben ri mac. 18 Riyin xa can pa walaxic chi majun utz cˈo pa nucˈaslen. Can nwajoˈ wi nben ri utz, pero ma yicowin ta. 19 Astapeˈ ya ri utz ri nwajoˈ nben, xa ma nben ta. Y ri mac ri ma nwajoˈ ta nben, xa yeriˈ ri yenbanalaˈ. 20 Rumariˈ xinbij yan chi ma nuyon ta riyin ri yibano ri mac, ruma can ma nwajoˈ ta nben. Xa ya ri mac ri ucˈuayon wuche (wixin), yariˈ ri nibano chuwe.

21 Y riyin ntzˈet chi can queriˈ nibanatej. Xa can achiˈel chic ley, ruma tek nwajoˈ nben ri utz, chanin nbekˈalajin pe ri mac ri ucˈuayon wuche (wixin). 22 Ri wánima, can niquicot riqˈui ri ruley ri Dios. 23 Pero wetaman chi cˈo jun chic ley ri ucˈuayon wuche (wixin); ri can yerucusaj ri nukˈaˈ waken. Y re jun ley reˈ, ley riche (rixin) ri mac y nuben chˈaˈoj riqˈui ri utz ri nurayij ri wánima. Y can yin ximil pa rukˈaˈ.

24 Juyiˈ oc nuwech riqˈui re ncˈulwachin, ruma ri itzel tak raybel ri yecˈo wuqˈui xa camic niquicˈom pe chuwe. ¿Achique cami ri yicolo pa rukˈaˈ reˈ? 25 Matiox chare ri Dios chi ri Kajaf Jesucristo xirucol. Ruma chi man ta ri Jesucristo, can ta cˈa yin jun na rusamajel ri ruley ri mac, ruma ri itzel tak raybel ri yecˈo wuqˈui. Y riˈ astapeˈ can cˈo ri raybel wuqˈui riche (rixin) chi yin ta jun rusamajel ri ruley ri Dios.

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