Romanos · Majority Standard Bible
Romanos 7 Majority Standard Bible
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1 Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
1 Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
2 For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
5 For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
8 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
10 So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
11 For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
13 Has that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
17 In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot discover how to carry it out.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
19 For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
20 And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
21 I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
22 For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
23 But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
Referencias cruzadas (25)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Romanos 6:14; Romanos 7:6; Romanos 6:3; Proverbios 6:23; Romanos 10:1
- 2 Génesis 2:23–24; 1 Corintios 7:4; 1 Corintios 7:39; Números 30:7–8
- 3 Éxodo 20:14; Mateo 5:32; Marcos 10:6–12; 1 Timoteo 5:11–14; Juan 8:3–5
- 4 1 Pedro 2:24; Gálatas 5:22–23; Isaías 54:5; Efesios 5:23–27; Romanos 8:2
- 5 Efesios 2:3; Gálatas 5:16–17; Gálatas 5:24; Gálatas 3:10; Romanos 6:13
- 6 Gálatas 3:23–25; 2 Corintios 3:6; Romanos 7:4; Romanos 6:4; Gálatas 2:19–20
- 7 Romanos 3:20; Romanos 4:15; Éxodo 20:17; 1 Corintios 15:56; Deuteronomio 5:21
- 8 Romanos 7:11; 1 Corintios 15:56; Romanos 4:15; Santiago 1:14–15; Romanos 7:13
- 9 Gálatas 3:10; Romanos 8:7; Romanos 7:4; Santiago 2:10–11; Gálatas 2:19
- 10 Levítico 18:5; 2 Corintios 3:7; Gálatas 3:12; Romanos 10:5; Ezequiel 20:21
- 11 Génesis 3:13; Romanos 7:8; Jeremías 17:9; Hebreos 3:13; Santiago 1:26
- 12 1 Timoteo 1:8; Salmo 119:137; Salmo 19:7–12; Romanos 7:14; Salmo 119:172
- 13 Santiago 1:13–15; Gálatas 3:21; Romanos 8:3; Romanos 7:8–11; Romanos 5:20
- 14 1 Reyes 21:25; 2 Reyes 17:17; Isaías 52:3; 1 Reyes 21:20; Romanos 7:18
- 15 Gálatas 5:17; Romanos 7:19–20; Eclesiastés 7:20; Santiago 3:2; Nahúm 1:7
- 16 Romanos 7:12; 1 Timoteo 1:8; Romanos 7:14; Romanos 7:22; Salmo 119:127–128
- 17 Romanos 7:20; Romanos 7:18; Filipenses 3:8–9; Santiago 4:5–6; Romanos 4:7–8
- 18 Juan 3:6; Salmo 51:5; Gálatas 5:17; Salmo 119:115–117; Romanos 7:25
- 19 Romanos 7:15
- 20 Romanos 7:17
- 21 Efesios 6:11–13; Romanos 8:2; Romanos 6:14; Romanos 7:23; Romanos 6:12
- 22 Salmo 1:2; Salmo 40:8; Salmo 119:35; Salmo 119:47–48; Hebreos 8:10
- 23 Gálatas 5:17; Santiago 4:1; Romanos 8:2; Romanos 6:19; Romanos 7:25
- 24 Romanos 6:6; 2 Timoteo 4:18; Tito 2:14; Romanos 8:2; 2 Corintios 12:7–9
- 25 Gálatas 5:17–24; Colosenses 3:17; 2 Corintios 12:9–10; 1 Pedro 2:5; Romanos 6:17
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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After having said that great evils had taken place, and that sin, taking occasion by the commandment, had grown stronger, and the opposite of what the Law mainly aimed at had been the result, and after having thrown the hearer into a great deal of perplexity, he goes on next to give the rationale of these events, after first clearing …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
… sign of our salvation, since it was the Lord Himself who saved them, because they could not be saved by their own instrumentality; and, therefore, when Paul sets forth human infirmity, he says: "For I know that there dwelleth in my flesh no good thing," showing that the "good thing" of our salvation is not from us, but from God.
For though a man "delight in the law of God after the inward man," what shall he do with that other law in his members which warreth against the law of his mind, and bringeth him into captivity to the law of sin, which is in his members?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
The Devil had used the flesh as an instrument against us; and Paul knowing this, saith, But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity, and the rest.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And again: "Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Then he introduces the Deliverer, [saying,] "The grace of Jesus Christ our Lord." And Isaiah declares this also, [when he says:] "Be ye strengthened, ye hands that hang down, and ye feeble knees; be ye encouraged, ye feeble-minded; be comforted, fear not: behold, …