1 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? 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 6 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.
7 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. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 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.
1 弟兄们， 我对懂得律法的人说， 你们不晓得律法管辖人， 是在他活着的期间吗？
2 一个已婚的妇人， 在丈夫活着的时候， 她是受律法约束归属丈夫； 丈夫若死了， 她就脱离丈夫在律法上的约束。
3 所以， 当丈夫还活着的时候， 如果她归属别的男人， 就称为淫妇； 丈夫若死了， 她就脱离了律法的约束， 如果她归属别的男人， 也不是淫妇。
4 这样， 我的弟兄们， 你们借着基督的身体， 对律法来说也已经死了， 使你们归属另一位， 就是那从死人中复活的， 为的是要我们结果子给 神。
5 我们从前属肉体的时候， 罪恶的情欲借着律法在我们的肢体里发动， 就结出死亡的果子。
6 但现在， 我们既然向那捆绑我们的律法死了， 就脱离了律法的约束， 好让我们用心灵的新样子， 而不用仪文的旧方式来服事主。
7 这样， 我们可以说什么呢？难道律法是罪吗？绝对不是。不过， 如果不是借着律法， 我就不知道什么是罪； 如果不是律法说"不可贪心"， 我就不知道什么是贪心。
8 但罪趁着机会， 借着诫命在我里面发动各样的贪心， 因为没有律法， 罪是死的。
9 在没有律法的时候， 我是活的； 但诫命一来， 罪就活了，
10 我就死了， 那本来使人活的诫命， 反而使我死了；
11 因为罪借着诫命把握着机会来欺骗我， 并且杀了我。
12 这样， 律法是圣洁的， 诫命也是圣洁、公义和良善的。
13 既是这样， 那良善的反而使我死吗？绝对不是！ 但罪借着那良善的使我死， 就显出真是罪， 为了要使罪借着诫命变成更加邪恶。
14 我们知道律法是属灵的， 我却是属肉体的， 已经卖给罪了。
15 因为我所作的， 我不明白； 我所愿意的， 我没有去作， 我所恨恶的， 我倒去作。
16 如果我所不愿意的， 我倒去作， 我就不得不承认律法是好的。
17 既是这样， 那就不是我作的， 而是住在我里面的罪作的。
18 我知道在我里面， 就是在我肉体之中， 没有良善， 因为立志行善由得我， 行出来却由不得我。
19 所以我愿意行的善， 我没有去行； 我不愿意作的恶， 我倒去作了。
20 我若作自己不愿意作的事， 那就不是我作的， 而是住在我里面的罪作的。
21 因此， 我发现了一个律， 就是我想向善的时候， 恶就在我里面出现。
22 按着我里面的人来说， 我是喜欢 神的律，
23 但我发觉肢体中另有一个律， 和我心中的律争战， 把我掳去附从肢体中的罪律。
24 我这个人真是苦啊！ 谁能救我脱离这使我死亡的身体呢？
25 感谢 神， 借着我们的主耶稣基督就能脱离了。可见， 一方面我自己心里服事 神的律， 另一方面我的肉体却服事罪的律。