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Ri cˈulanem are jun cˈutbal chrij ri cˈaslemal rucˈ ri Cristo

Kachalal, ri ix ri iwetam ri Pixab quichˈobo chi ri Pixab xuwi cˈo chukˈab pu kˈab puwiˈ jun winak aretak cˈasal na. Quincoj na jun cˈutbal chiwäch: Ri ixok ri cˈulanic rajwaxic chi cänim riˈ che ri pixab re ri cˈulanem aretak cˈä cˈasal na ri rachajil. We cˈu cäcäm ri rachajil, cˈä te riˈ man rajwaxic tä chic cäniman che we pixab riˈ. Rumal riˈ, we ri ixok cäcˈuli rucˈ jun achi chic aretak cˈasal na ri rachajil, cuban ri nimalaj mac ri äwas u banic chrij ri rachajil. We cˈu cäcäm ri rachajil, man rajwaxic tä chic cäniman che ri pixab re ru cˈulanem. Pune cäcˈuli rucˈ jun achi chic, man cuban tä riˈ ri nimalaj mac ri äwas u banic.

Je cˈu riˈ ri ix, kachalal, ri ix u tzˈakatil ru cuerpo ri Cristo, man cˈo tä chic ri Pixab pi wiˈ rumal chi ix jeˈ ta ne ix cˈulan chic rucˈ ri Cristo. Ix rech chi ri Cristo ri xcˈastaj chquixol ri cäminakib. Je riˈ rech ri ka cˈaslemal coc waˈ chupatänixic ri Dios. Nabe canok, aretak ri ka cˈaslemal are ru banic xak jas ri cäkaj uj, ri itzel tak ka rayinic xecˈastaj rumal ri Pixab. Ri riˈ cˈut xa xujucˈam bi pa ri cämical. Cämic cˈut uj cäminak chic chuwäch ri Pixab ri xtakan pa ka wiˈ nabe. Je riˈ man cˈo tä chi ri Pixab pa ka wiˈ. Cämic cäkapatänij ri Dios pa ri cˈacˈ ka cˈaslemal ri cuya ri Lokˈalaj Espíritu. Ri ojer Pixab ri tzˈibtalic man cˈo tä chi pa ka wiˈ.

Ri apóstol Pablo cächˈaw chrij ri mac ri cˈo pa ri ka cˈaslemal

¿Jas cˈu ri cäkabij? ¿A cäkabij lo chi mac riˈ ri Pixab? ¡Man jeˈ taj! Rumal cˈu ri cubij ri Pixab xinwetamaj jas riˈ ri mac. ¡Kachomajmpeˈ! Mat xinwetamaj riˈ chi ru rayixic ri jastak que niqˈuiaj winak chic are mac, we ta mat xubij ri Pixab: “Marayij u wäch ri jastak que niqˈuiaj winak chic,” ―cächaˈ. Ri mac cˈut xnimar u wäch rumal ri takanic, xucˈasuj cˈu pa ri wanimaˈ ronojel u wäch itzel tak rayinic. Je riˈ, rumal chi we ta mat cˈo ri Pixab, man kˈalaj tä riˈ chi cˈo ri mac. Ri in nabe canok aretak mäjaˈ cˈo wetam chrij ri Pixab xinchomaj chi kas utz ri tajin quinban pa ri nu cˈaslemal. Aretak cˈut xpe ri takanic, xinchˈob jas ri cubij ri Pixab. Te riˈ xcˈastaj ri mac ri cˈo pa wanimaˈ, are cˈu ri in xinwetamaj chi in cäminak chuwäch ri Dios. 10 Je riˈ ri takanic ri xpe chuyaˈic cˈaslemal, chwe in cˈut xa xuya cämical. 11 Rumal ri Pixab ri mac xucoj u chukˈab chwe, xinusub cˈut. Xucoj ri takanic che nu cämisaxic.

12 Kas tzij cˈut, ri Pixab rucˈ ri takanic man cˈo tä qui mac, xane jicom xukujeˈ utz ri cäquibij. 13 ¿A are ta cˈu lo ri u banic utzil ri xbanow chwe chi quincämic? ¡Man are taj! Xane are ri mac ri quincämisanic. Je riˈ xubano rech cäkˈalajinic jas riˈ ri mac. Are cˈu xucoj ri utz chubanic waˈ. Je riˈ ri takanic xukˈalajisaj chi ri mac are sibalaj man utz taj.

14 Ketam chi ri Pixab rucˈ ri Dios cäpe wi, ri in cˈut xak in winak. In cˈo pu kˈab ri mac. 15 Man quinchˈob tä cˈut jas ri tajin quinbano. Man are tä cˈu quinban ri cwaj, xane ri tzel quinwilo are waˈ ri tajin quinbano. 16 We cˈu are quinban ri man cwaj taj quinbano, je riˈ quinchˈobo chi utz ri Pixab. 17 Rumal cˈu riˈ man in tä chi riˈ ri tajin quinbanowic, xane are ri mac ri cˈo pa ri wanimaˈ ri tajin cuban waˈ. 18 Ri in wetam chi man cˈo tä jubikˈ ri utz pa ri wanimaˈ rumal chi xak in winak ajuwächulew. Cˈo nu rayinic chubanic ri utz, xa cˈu man quincowin tä quinban waˈ. 19 Man quinban tä ri utz ri cwaj quinbano, xane are quintakej u banic ri man utz taj ri man cwaj taj quinbano. 20 We cˈu are quinban ri man cwaj taj quinbano, man in tä chi riˈ quinbanowic, xane are ri mac ri cˈo pa wanimaˈ.

21 Ri quincˈulmaj cˈut are waˈ: Aretak cwaj quinban ri utz, xuwi ri etzelal cucˈut rib chnuwäch. 22 Ri wanimaˈ cˈut cäquicot rucˈ ru Pixab ri Dios. 23 Quinwil cˈut chi pa ri nu cuerpo cˈo jun pixab ri xa cucˈulelaj u wäch ri pixab ri cˈo pa ri nu chomabal. Are cˈu waˈ ri pixab re ri mac ri cˈo pa ri nu cuerpo, are waˈ ri in chapowinak.

24 ¡Cˈäx waˈ ri nu banic! ¿Jachin ta ri quinesan na pu kˈab waˈ we cuerpo riˈ ri xa quinucˈam bi pa ri cämical? 25 Xuwi ri Dios cäcowin che nu toˈic rumal ri Kajaw Jesucristo. ¡Maltiox baˈ che ri Dios! Rumal riˈ ri in quinchˈobo chi rajwaxic quinnimaj ru Pixab ri Dios, are cˈu ri nu cuerpo cuya rib pu kˈab ri 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.