¹Know 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?

¹Ali pa ne veste, bratje (govorim namreč tistim, ki poznajo postavo), da postava gospoduje človeku, kolikor časa živi?

²For 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.

²Kajti omožena žena je s postavo privezana na moža, dokler on živi; če ji pa mož umre, je oproščena postave moža.

³So 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.

³Zato se bo torej prešeštnica imenovala, če postane žena drugemu možu, dokler njen mož živi; če pa mož umre, je prosta postave, da ne bo prešeštnica, če se omoži z drugim.

⁴Wherefore, 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.

⁴Tako, bratje moji, ste tudi vi umrli postavi po smrti telesa Kristusovega, da boste zvezani z drugim, s tistim namreč, ki je iz mrtvih vstal, da sad obrodimo Bogu.

⁵For 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.

⁵Kajti ko smo bili v mesu, so delovale v naših udih grešne strasti, zbujene po postavi, da obrode sad smrti.

⁶But 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.

⁶Sedaj pa smo oproščeni postave, ko smo odmrli temu, kar nas je vezalo, tako da služimo v novosti duha in ne v starini črke.

⁷What 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.

⁷Kaj torej porečemo? da je postava greh? Nikakor ne! Ali greha nisem spoznal, razen po postavi. Saj tudi za poželenje ne bi bil vedel, ko bi postava ne velela: Ne poželi!

⁸But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

⁸Ko je pa priložnost dobil greh, je po zapovedi napravil v meni vsakršno poželenje; zakaj greh brez postave je mrtev.

⁹For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

⁹Jaz pa sem živel brez postave nekdaj; ali ko je prišla zapoved, je greh oživel,

¹⁰And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

¹⁰jaz pa sem umrl; in pokazalo se je, da mi je ta zapoved, ki naj bi bila za življenje, za smrt.

¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

¹¹Zakaj greh, dobivši priložnost, me je po zapovedi ukanil in ž njo umoril.

¹²Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

¹²Tako je postava res sveta, in zapoved je sveta in pravična in dobra.

¹³Was 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.

¹³Ali je torej to, kar je dobro, meni postalo smrt? Nikakor ne! Temuč greh mi je postal smrt, da se pokaže kot greh, pripravljajoč mi z dobrim smrt, da tako postane greh čez mero grešen po zapovedi.

¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

¹⁴Vemo namreč, da je postava duhovna, a jaz sem mesen, suženjski prodan grehu.

¹⁵For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

¹⁵Kajti kar delam, ne umejem: ker kar hočem, tega ne delam, nego kar sovražim, to delam.

¹⁶If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

¹⁶Če pa to delam, česar nočem, pritrjujem postavi, da je dobra.

¹⁷Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

¹⁷Sedaj pa ne delam tega več jaz, temuč v meni prebivajoči greh.

¹⁸For 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.

¹⁸Kajti vem, da ne prebiva v meni, to je, v mojem mesu, dobro. Hoteti dobro, to je pač pri meni, ali izvrševati dobro, tega ni.

¹⁹For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

¹⁹Dobrega namreč, kar hočem, ne delam, ampak hudo, česar nočem, prav to delam.

²⁰Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

²⁰Če pa to delam, česar nočem, ne delam tega več jaz, temuč v meni prebivajoči greh.

²¹I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

²¹Kaže se mi torej ta postava: kadar hočem dobro delati, se me drži hudo.

²²For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

²²Kajti veselim se postave Božje po notranjem človeku,

²³But 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.

²³ali v svojih udih vidim drugačno postavo, ki se ustavlja postavi uma mojega in me ima ujetega v postavi greha, katera je v mojih udih.

²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

²⁴Jaz nesrečni človek! kdo me otme iz telesa te smrti?Hvala bodi Bogu po Jezusu Kristusu, Gospodu našem! Tako torej jaz sam z umom služim postavi Božji, a z mesom postavi greha.

²⁵I 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.

²⁵Hvala bodi Bogu po Jezusu Kristusu, Gospodu našem! Tako torej jaz sam z umom služim postavi Božji, a z mesom postavi greha.