Romans 7 (RV09)

1¿IGNORÁIS, hermanos, (porque hablo con los que saben la ley) que la ley se enseñorea del hombre entre tanto que vive?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?

2Porque la mujer que está sujeta á marido, mientras el marido vive está obligada á la ley; mas muerto el marido, libre es de la ley del marido.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.

3Así que, viviendo el marido, se llamará adúltera si fuere de otro varón; mas si su marido muriere, es libre de la ley; de tal manera que no será adúltera si fuere de otro marido.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.

4Así también vosotros, hermanos míos, estáis muertos á la ley por el cuerpo de Cristo, para que seáis de otro, á saber, del que resucitó de los muertos, á fin de que fructifiquemos á Dios.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.

5Porque mientras estábamos en la carne, los afectos de los pecados que eran por la ley, obraban en nuestros miembros fructificando para muerte.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.

6Mas ahora estamos libres de la ley, habiendo muerto á aquella en la cual estábamos detenidos, para que sirvamos en novedad de espíritu, y no en vejez de letra.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.

7¿Qué pues diremos? ¿La ley es pecado? En ninguna manera. Empero yo no conocí el pecado sino por la ley: porque tampoco conociera la concupiscencia, si la ley no dijera: No codiciarás.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.”

8Mas el pecado, tomando ocasión, obró en mí por el mandamiento toda concupiscencia: porque sin la ley el pecado está muerto.But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

9Así que, yo sin la ley vivía por algún tiempo: mas venido el mandamiento, el pecado revivió, y yo morí.Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

10Y hallé que el mandamiento, intimado para vida, para mí era mortal:So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

11Porque el pecado, tomando ocasión, me engañó por el mandamiento, y por él me mató.For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

12De manera que la ley á la verdad es santa, y el mandamiento santo, y justo, y bueno.So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

13¿Luego lo que es bueno, á mí me es hecho muerte? No; sino que el pecado, para mostrarse pecado, por lo bueno me obró la muerte, haciéndose pecado sobremanera pecante por el mandamiento.Did 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.

14Porque sabemos que la ley es espiritual; mas yo soy carnal, vendido á sujeción del pecado.We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

15Porque lo que hago, no lo entiendo; ni lo que quiero, hago; antes lo que aborrezco, aquello hago.I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

16Y si lo que no quiero, esto hago, apruebo que la ley es buena.And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

17De manera que ya no obro aquello, sino el pecado que mora en mí.In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

18Y yo sé que en mí (es á saber, en mi carne) no mora el bien: porque tengo el querer, mas efectuar el bien no lo alcanzo.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 carry it out.

19Porque no hago el bien que quiero; mas el mal que no quiero, éste hago.For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

20Y si hago lo que no quiero, ya no lo obro yo, sino el pecado que mora en mí.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.

21Así que, queriendo yo hacer el bien, hallo esta ley: Que el mal está en mí.So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

22Porque según el hombre interior, me deleito en la ley de Dios:For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

23Mas veo otra ley en mis miembros, que se rebela contra la ley de mi espíritu, y que me lleva cautivo á la ley del pecado que está en mis miembros.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.

24¡Miserable hombre de mí! ¿quién me librará del cuerpo de esta muerte?What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

25Gracias doy á Dios, por Jesucristo Señor nuestro. Así que, yo mismo con la mente sirvo á la ley de Dios, mas con la carne á la ley del pecado.Thanks be to 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.

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