1 Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?
2 For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.
3 So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.
4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;
10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
15 And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.
16 But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.
17 So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
18 For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
19 For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.
20 But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
21 So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.
22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
23 But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
24 How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?
25 I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
1 Eller vet I ikke, brødre - jeg taler jo til slike som kjenner loven - at loven hersker over mennesket så lenge det lever?
2 Den gifte kvinne er jo ved loven bundet til sin mann så lenge han lever; men dersom mannen dør, er hun løst fra loven som bandt henne til mannen.
3 Derfor skal hun kalles en horkvinne om hun, mens mannen lever, ekter en annen mann; men dersom mannen dør, er hun fri fra loven, så hun ikke blir en horkvinne om hun ekter en annen mann.
4 Derfor, mine brødre, døde også I fra loven ved Kristi legeme, forat I skulde høre en annen til, ham som er opstanden fra de døde, så vi kan bære frukt for Gud.
5 For da vi var i kjødet, virket de syndige lyster, som vaktes ved loven, således i våre lemmer at vi bar frukt for døden;
6 men nu er vi løst fra loven, idet vi er død fra det som vi var fanget under, så vi tjener i Åndens nye vesen, og ikke i bokstavens gamle vesen.
7 Hvad skal vi da si? er loven synd? Langt derifra! men jeg kjente ikke synden uten ved loven; for begjærligheten kjente jeg ikke dersom ikke loven hadde sagt: Du skal ikke begjære.
8 Men synden tok anledning av budet og virket alskens begjærlighet i mig; for uten lov er synden død.
9 Jeg levde en tid uten lov; men da budet kom, blev synden levende igjen,
10 jeg derimot døde; og budet, som var til liv, det blev funnet å være mig til død;
11 for synden tok anledning av budet og dåret og drepte mig ved det.
12 Så er da loven hellig, og budet hellig og rettferdig og godt.
13 Er da det som er godt, blitt mig til død? Langt derifra! men det var synden, forat den skulde vise sig som synd, idet den voldte mig døden ved det som er godt - forat synden skulde bli overvettes syndig ved budet.
14 For vi vet at loven er åndelig; jeg derimot er kjødelig, solgt under synden;
15 for hvad jeg gjør, vet jeg ikke; for jeg gjør ikke det som jeg vil; men det som jeg hater, det gjør jeg.
16 Men gjør jeg det som jeg ikke vil, da vidner jeg jo med loven at den er god;
17 men nu er det ikke mere jeg som gjør det, men synden, som bor i mig.
18 For jeg vet at i mig, det er i mitt kjød, bor intet godt; for viljen har jeg, men å gjøre det gode makter jeg ikke;
19 for jeg gjør ikke det gode som jeg vil, men det onde som jeg ikke vil, det gjør jeg.
20 Men gjør jeg det som jeg ikke vil, da er det ikke mere jeg som gjør det, men synden, som bor i mig.
21 Så finner jeg da den lov for mig, jeg som vil gjøre det gode, at det onde ligger mig for hånden;
22 for jeg har lyst til Guds lov efter mitt innvortes menneske,
23 men jeg ser en annen lov i mine lemmer, som strider mot loven i mitt sinn og tar mig til fange under syndens lov, den som er i mine lemmer.
24 Jeg elendige menneske! hvem skal fri mig fra dette dødens legeme?
25 Gud være takk ved Jesus Kristus, vår Herre! - Så tjener da jeg Guds lov med mitt sinn, men syndens lov med mitt kjød.