全新四年樂活讀經
W3 2011-08-24 (羅7)
經文: 羅馬書 7:22-25 因為按著我裡面的意思（原文作人），我是喜歡神的律；但我覺得肢體中另有個律和我心中的律交戰，把我擄去，叫我附從那肢體中犯罪的律。我真是苦啊！誰能救我脫離這取死的身體呢？感謝神，靠著我們的主耶穌基督就能脫離了。這樣看來，我以內心順服神的律，我肉體卻順服罪的律了。
默想: 使徒保羅更進一步討論在我們受洗之後，我們生命中這個剛出生的屬靈嬰孩的一生成長過程，是衝滿矛盾與爭扎的。原來受洗時，藉著受洗與基督同釘十架同埋葬的那個老我，並不是那麼快的就立刻死亡。這個老我似乎還躲藏在我們生命的一個幽暗的角落，不斷的在我們成聖過程當中，扯我們的後腿，絆我們的前腳。雖然我們的新我，從心裡面很喜歡神的律，也樂意去順服遵行。奈何生命深處幽暗腳落的老我，卻不斷的與新我爭戰，並且常常佔上風，造成我們屬靈生命的無奈與悲嘆。保羅發現，我們的主耶穌基督很願意幫助我們，讓我們能夠得勝老我的羈絆，在屬靈成長的道路上，讓我們不停的靠主前行。
題目: 14-25節，保羅在這裡所描寫的心中痛苦與掙扎，是指基督徒還是非基督徒？你有何看法與經驗？
7:1 弟兄們，我現在對明白律法的人說，你們豈不曉得律法管人是在活著的時候嗎？
Do you not know, brethren -- for I am speaking to those who know the law -- that the law is binding on a person only during his life?
7:2 就如女人有了丈夫，丈夫還活著，就被律法約束；丈夫若死了，就脫離了丈夫的律法。
Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.
7:3 所以丈夫活著，她若歸於別人，便叫淫婦；丈夫若死了，她就脫離了丈夫的律法，雖然歸於別人，也不是淫婦。
Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
7:4 我的弟兄們，這樣說來，你們藉著基督的身體，在律法上也是死了，叫你們歸於別人，就是歸於那從死裡復活的，叫我們結果子給 神。
Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
7:5 因為我們屬肉體的時候，那因律法而生的惡慾就在我們肢體中發動，以致結成死亡的果子。
While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
7:6 但我們既然在捆我們的律法上死了，現今就脫離了律法，叫我們服事主，要按著心靈（心靈：或作聖靈）的新樣，不按著儀文的舊樣。
But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.
7:7 這樣，我們可說甚麼呢？律法是罪麼？斷乎不是！只是非因律法，我就不知何為罪。非律法說不可起貪心，我就不知何為貪心。
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
7:8 然而罪趁著機會，就藉著誡命叫諸般的貪心在我裡頭發動；因為沒有律法，罪是死的。
But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
7:9 我以前沒有律法是活著的；但是誡命來到，罪又活了，我就死了。
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;
7:10 那本來叫人活的誡命，反倒叫我死；
the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me.
7:11 因為罪趁著機會，就藉著誡命引誘我，並且殺了我。
For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.
7:12 這樣看來，律法是聖潔的，誡命也是聖潔、公義、良善的。
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
7:13 既然如此，那良善的是叫我死嗎？斷乎不是！叫我死的乃是罪。但罪藉著那良善的叫我死，就顯出真是罪，叫罪因著誡命更顯出是惡極了。
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
7:14 我們原曉得律法是屬乎靈的，但我是屬乎肉體的，是已經賣給罪了。
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.
7:15 因為我所做的，我自己不明白；我所願意的，我並不做；我所恨惡的，我倒去做。
I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
7:16 若我所做的，是我所不願意的，我就應承律法是善的。
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
7:17 既是這樣，就不是我做的，乃是住在我裡頭的罪做的。
So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
7:18 我也知道在我裡頭，就是我肉體之中，沒有良善。因為，立志為善由得我，只是行出來由不得我。
For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
7:19 故此，我所願意的善，我反不做；我所不願意的惡，我倒去做。
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
7:20 若我去做所不願意做的，就不是我做的，乃是住在我裡頭的罪做的。
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
7:21 我覺得有個律，就是我願意為善的時候，便有惡與我同在。
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
7:22 因為按著我裡面的意思（原文是人），我是喜歡 神的律；
For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,
7:23 但我覺得肢體中另有個律和我心中的律交戰，把我擄去，叫我附從那肢體中犯罪的律。
but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
7:24 我真是苦啊！誰能救我脫離這取死的身體呢？
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
7:25 感謝 神，靠著我們的主耶穌基督就能脫離了。這樣看來，我以內心順服 神的律，我肉體卻順服罪的律了。
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Do you not know, brethren -- for I am speaking to those who know the law -- that the law is binding on a person only during his life?
7:2 就如女人有了丈夫，丈夫還活著，就被律法約束；丈夫若死了，就脫離了丈夫的律法。
Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.
7:3 所以丈夫活著，她若歸於別人，便叫淫婦；丈夫若死了，她就脫離了丈夫的律法，雖然歸於別人，也不是淫婦。
Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
7:4 我的弟兄們，這樣說來，你們藉著基督的身體，在律法上也是死了，叫你們歸於別人，就是歸於那從死裡復活的，叫我們結果子給 神。
Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
7:5 因為我們屬肉體的時候，那因律法而生的惡慾就在我們肢體中發動，以致結成死亡的果子。
While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
7:6 但我們既然在捆我們的律法上死了，現今就脫離了律法，叫我們服事主，要按著心靈（心靈：或作聖靈）的新樣，不按著儀文的舊樣。
But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.
7:7 這樣，我們可說甚麼呢？律法是罪麼？斷乎不是！只是非因律法，我就不知何為罪。非律法說不可起貪心，我就不知何為貪心。
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
7:8 然而罪趁著機會，就藉著誡命叫諸般的貪心在我裡頭發動；因為沒有律法，罪是死的。
But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
7:9 我以前沒有律法是活著的；但是誡命來到，罪又活了，我就死了。
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;
7:10 那本來叫人活的誡命，反倒叫我死；
the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me.
7:11 因為罪趁著機會，就藉著誡命引誘我，並且殺了我。
For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.
7:12 這樣看來，律法是聖潔的，誡命也是聖潔、公義、良善的。
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
7:13 既然如此，那良善的是叫我死嗎？斷乎不是！叫我死的乃是罪。但罪藉著那良善的叫我死，就顯出真是罪，叫罪因著誡命更顯出是惡極了。
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
7:14 我們原曉得律法是屬乎靈的，但我是屬乎肉體的，是已經賣給罪了。
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.
7:15 因為我所做的，我自己不明白；我所願意的，我並不做；我所恨惡的，我倒去做。
I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
7:16 若我所做的，是我所不願意的，我就應承律法是善的。
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
7:17 既是這樣，就不是我做的，乃是住在我裡頭的罪做的。
So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
7:18 我也知道在我裡頭，就是我肉體之中，沒有良善。因為，立志為善由得我，只是行出來由不得我。
For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
7:19 故此，我所願意的善，我反不做；我所不願意的惡，我倒去做。
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
7:20 若我去做所不願意做的，就不是我做的，乃是住在我裡頭的罪做的。
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
7:21 我覺得有個律，就是我願意為善的時候，便有惡與我同在。
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
7:22 因為按著我裡面的意思（原文是人），我是喜歡 神的律；
For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,
7:23 但我覺得肢體中另有個律和我心中的律交戰，把我擄去，叫我附從那肢體中犯罪的律。
but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
7:24 我真是苦啊！誰能救我脫離這取死的身體呢？
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
7:25 感謝 神，靠著我們的主耶穌基督就能脫離了。這樣看來，我以內心順服 神的律，我肉體卻順服罪的律了。
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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保羅說：「我真是苦啊！誰能救我脫離這取死的身體呢」？（羅馬書 7:24）是的，使徒保羅心中痛苦與掙扎，也正是每一個基督徒，每天面對自己肉體的律的挑戰。當基督徒要聖潔愛主的時候，在我們裡面有肉體的情慾，眼目的情慾，今生的驕傲常常蠢蠢欲動，淫亂、污穢、邪情、惡慾，和貪婪，叫追求聖潔生活的基督徒感到非常痛苦。一不小心，很容易為過犯所勝。唯有靠著我們的主耶穌基督的寶血的功效，恩典的喜樂和順從真理聖靈的帶領和教導，常與我們同在，才能脫離罪惡的權勢，和脫離律法的捆綁。如果上帝的靈住在我們心裡，我們就不屬肉體，乃屬聖靈了。（羅馬書 8:9）自然，就能過得勝的生活。
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