Lettera ai Romani (رومية) 7

SMITH VAN DYKE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 ام تجهلون ايها الاخوة. لاني اكلم العارفين بالناموس. ان الناموس يسود على الانسان ما دام حيّا.	1 As people who are familiar with the Law, brothers, you cannot have forgotten that the law can control aperson only during that person's lifetime.
2 فان المرأة التي تحت رجل هي مرتبطة بالناموس بالرجل الحي. ولكن ان مات الرجل فقد تحررت من ناموس الرجل.	2 A married woman, for instance, is bound to her husband by law, as long as he lives, but when herhusband dies all her legal obligation to him as husband is ended.
3 فاذا ما دام الرجل حيّا تدعى زانية ان صارت لرجل آخر. ولكن ان مات الرجل فهي حرة من الناموس حتى انها ليست زانية ان صارت لرجل آخر.	3 So if she were to have relations with another man while her husband was still alive, she would betermed an adulteress; but if her husband dies, her legal obligation comes to an end and if she then has relationswith another man, that does not make her an adulteress.
4 اذا يا اخوتي انتم ايضا قد متم للناموس بجسد المسيح لكي تصيروا لآخر للذي قد أقيم من الاموات لنثمر للّه.	4 In the same way you, my brothers, through the body of Christ have become dead to the Law and soyou are able to belong to someone else, that is, to him who was raised from the dead to make us live fruitful y for God.
5 لانه لما كنا في الجسد كانت اهواء الخطايا التي بالناموس تعمل في اعضائنا لكي نثمر للموت.	5 While we were stil living by our natural inclinations, the sinful passions aroused by the Law wereworking in al parts of our bodies to make us live lives which were fruitful only for death.
6 واما الآن فقد تحررنا من الناموس اذ مات الذي كنا ممسكين فيه حتى نعبد بجدة الروح لا بعتق الحرف	6 But now we are released from the Law, having died to what was binding us, and so we are in a newservice, that of the spirit, and not in the old service of a written code.
7 فماذا نقول. هل الناموس خطية. حاشا. بل لم اعرف الخطية الا بالناموس. فانني لم اعرف الشهوة لو لم يقل الناموس لا تشته.	7 What should we say, then? That the Law itself is sin? Out of the question! All the same, if it had notbeen for the Law, I should not have known what sin was; for instance, I should not have known what it meant tocovet if the Law had not said: You are not to covet.
8 ولكن الخطية وهي متخذة فرصة بالوصية انشأت في كل شهوة. لان بدون الناموس الخطية ميتة.	8 But, once it found the opportunity through that commandment, sin produced in me al kinds ofcovetousness; as long as there is no Law, sin is dead.
9 اما انا فكنت بدون الناموس عائشا قبلا. ولكن لما جاءت الوصية عاشت الخطية فمتّ انا.	9 Once, when there was no Law, I used to be alive; but when the commandment came, sin came to life
10 فوجدت الوصية التي للحياة هي نفسها لي للموت.	10 and I died. The commandment was meant to bring life but I found it brought death,
11 لان الخطية وهي متخذة فرصة بالوصية خدعتني بها وقتلتني.	11 because sin, finding its opportunity by means of the commandment, beguiled me and, by means of it,kil ed me.
12 اذا الناموس مقدس والوصية مقدسة وعادلة وصالحة.	12 So then, the Law is holy, and what it commands is holy and upright and good.
13 فهل صار لي الصالح موتا. حاشا. بل الخطية. لكي تظهر خطية منشئة لي بالصالح موتا لكي تصير الخطية خاطئة جدا بالوصية	13 Does that mean that something good resulted in my dying? Out of the question! But sin, in order to beidentified as sin, caused my death through that good thing, and so it is by means of the commandment that sinshows its unbounded sinful power.
14 فاننا نعلم ان الناموس روحي واما انا فجسدي مبيع تحت الخطية.	14 We are wel aware that the Law is spiritual: but I am a creature of flesh and blood sold as a slave tosin.
15 لاني لست اعرف ما انا افعله اذ لست افعل ما اريده بل ما ابغضه فاياه افعل.	15 I do not understand my own behaviour; I do not act as I mean to, but I do things that I hate.
16 فان كنت افعل ما لست اريده فاني اصادق الناموس انه حسن.	16 While I am acting as I do not want to, I still acknowledge the Law as good,
17 فالآن لست بعد افعل ذلك انا بل الخطية الساكنة فيّ.	17 so it is not myself acting, but the sin which lives in me.
18 فاني اعلم انه ليس ساكن فيّ اي في جسدي شيء صالح. لان الارادة حاضرة عندي واما ان افعل الحسنى فلست اجد.	18 And really, I know of nothing good living in me -- in my natural self, that is -- for though the wil to dowhat is good is in me, the power to do it is not:
19 لاني لست افعل الصالح الذي اريده بل الشر الذي لست اريده فاياه افعل.	19 the good thing I want to do, I never do; the evil thing which I do not want -- that is what I do.
20 فان كنت ما لست اريده اياه افعل فلست بعد افعله انا بل الخطية الساكنة فيّ.	20 But every time I do what I do not want to, then it is not myself acting, but the sin that lives in me.
21 اذا اجد الناموس لي حينما اريد ان افعل الحسنى ان الشر حاضر عندي.	21 So I find this rule: that for me, where I want to do nothing but good, evil is close at my side.
22 فاني اسرّ بناموس الله بحسب الانسان الباطن.	22 In my inmost self I dearly love God's law,
23 ولكني ارى ناموسا آخر في اعضائي يحارب ناموس ذهني ويسبيني الى ناموس الخطية الكائن في اعضائي.	23 but I see that acting on my body there is a different law which battles against the law in my mind. So Iam brought to be a prisoner of that law of sin which lives inside my body.
24 ويحي انا الانسان الشقي. من ينقذني من جسد هذا الموت.	24 What a wretched man I am! Who wil rescue me from this body doomed to death?
25 اشكر الله بيسوع المسيح ربنا. اذا انا نفسي بذهني اخدم ناموس الله ولكن بالجسد ناموس الخطية	25 God -- thanks be to him -- through Jesus Christ our Lord. So it is that I myself with my mind obey thelaw of God, but in my disordered nature I obey the law of sin.