¹Or don’t you know, brothers The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

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

²For 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.

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 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.

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.

⁴Therefore, 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 bring forth fruit to 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 sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

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

⁶But 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.

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? 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.” Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21

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, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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

⁹I was alive apart from 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,

¹⁰The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

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

¹¹for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

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

¹²Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

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

¹³Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin 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 fleshly, sold under sin.

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

¹⁵For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

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

¹⁶But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

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

¹⁷So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells 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, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

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 which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

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

²⁰But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

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

²¹I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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

²²For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

²²Kajti veselim se postave Božje po notranjem človeku,

²³but 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.

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.

²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of 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 God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

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