Romiyim (Romans) 7
7
1Or do you not know, brothers – for I speak to those knowing the Torah – that the Torah rules over a man as long as he lives?
2For the married woman has been bound by Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is released from the Torah concerning her husband.
3So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s.
4So my brothers, you also were put to death to the Torah through the body of Messiah, for you to become another’s, the One who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to Elohim.
5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, through the Torah, were working in our members to bear fruit to death.
6But now we have been released from the Torah, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in newness of Spirit and not in oldness of letter.
7What, then, shall we say? Is the Torah sin? Let it not be! However, I did not know sin except through the Torah. For also the covetousness I knew not if the Torah had not said, “You shall not covet.”# Exo. 20:17; Deu. 5:21
8But sin, having taken the occasion through the command, did work in me all sorts of covetousness. For apart from Torah sin is dead.
9And I was alive apart from the Torah once, but when the command came, the sin revived, and I died.
10And the command which was to result in life, this I found to result in death.
11For sin, having taken the occasion through the command, deceived me, and through it killed me.
12So that the Torah truly is set-apart, and the command set-apart, and righteous, and good.
13Therefore, has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But the sin, that sin might be manifest, was working death in me through what is good, so that sin through the command might become an exceedingly great sinner.
14For we know that the Torah is Spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15For what I work, I know not. For what I wish, that I do not practise, but what I hate, that I do.
16But if I do what I do not wish, I agree with the Torah that it is good.
17And now, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me.
18For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to work the good I do not find.
19For the good that I wish to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not wish to do, this I practise.
20And if I do that which I do not wish, it is no longer I who work it, but the sin dwelling in me.
21I find therefore this law, that when I wish to do the good, that the evil is present with me.
22For I delight in the Torah of Elohim#See Psa. 119:16 according to the inward man,
23but I see another torah in my members, battling against the torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the torah of sin which is in my members.
24Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?
25Thanks to Elohim, through יהושע Messiah our Master! So then, with the mind I myself truly serve the Torah of Elohim, but with the flesh the torah of sin.
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Romans 7
7
1Do you not have da'as, Achim b'Moshiach, for I speak to those who know the Torah, that the Torah exercises marut (authority, rule) over a man so long as he lives?
2For the agunah (woman whose husbandʼs whereabouts are unknown) is bound by the gezetz to her husband while he lives; but in the case that her husbandʼs death can be confirmed, she is no longer an agunah and is released from the gezetz of her husband.
3Accordingly she will be named no'ehfet (adulteress) if, while her husband lives, she becomes another manʼs. But if her ba'al (husband) dies, she is free from the gezetz, so that she is no no'ehfet (adulteress) if she becomes another manʼs.
4So then, Achim b'Moshiach, you also were put to death in relation to the Gezetz through the basar of Moshiach,#7:4 Ps 16:9-10; Ro 8:3 in order that you might become anotherʼs, bound to Moshiach who was given Techiyah (Resurrection) from the Mesim, so that we might bear p'ri for Hashem.
5For when we were in the basar (in the fallen condition of the old humanity), through the Gezetz, the ta'avat besarim, the sinful passions#7:5 i.e., Chet Kadmonʼs yetzer harah of the fallen human condition were working in our natural capacities, so as to bear p'ri for mavet (death).#7:5 cf. Ro 4:15
6But now we have become niftar (freed, deceased) from the dominating ownership of the Gezetz, having died to that by which we were confined, so that we might serve in the Ruach Hakodesh of hitkhadshut and newness and not in the yoshen (oldness) of chumra (stringency, strict adherence to the letter of the law).#7:6 Ro 2:29
7What then shall we say? That the Gezetz is considered as chet (sin)? Chas v'shalom! Nevertheless, I would not have experienced chet (sin) except through the Gezetz; for I would not have known chamdanut (covetousness, greediness) if the Torah had not said, LO TACHMOD#7:7 Ex 20:17 (Thou shalt not covet).
8But Chet (Sin), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh (commandment), stirred up all manner of chamdanut (covetousness) in me. For in the absence of the Gezetz, Chet (Sin) is dead.
9And in the absence of the Gezetz I was once alive. But when the mitzvoh (commandment) came,#7:9 Gn 2:16-17 Chet (Sin) became alive,
10and I died. The mitzvoh (commandment) intended as the Derech L'Chayyim (Way to Life) proved for me a means to mavet (death).
11For Chet (Sin), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh (commandment), deceived me and, through the mitzvoh (commandment), killed me.#7:11 Gn 3:1-6
12So that the Torah is kedoshah (holy) and the mitzvoh (commandment) is kedoshah and yasharah and tovah.
13Did that which is good, then, become mavet (death) to me? Chas v'shalom! But Chet (Sin), it was Chet, working mavet (death) in me through that which is tovah, in order that Chet might be shown as Chet (Sin), and in order that Chet through the mitzvoh (commandment) might become chata'ah gedolah ad m'od (utterly sinful).
14For we have da'as that the Torah is Ruchanit (Spiritual, of the Ruach Hakodesh); but I am of the basar (fallen humanity) sold under the power of (slave master Chet Kadmon) Chet.
15For I do not have da'as what I do. For that which I commit is not what I want; no, it is what I hate that I do!
16But if that which I do is what I do not want, I agree with the Torah that the Gezetz is good.
17But now it is no longer I doing this, but [the power of] Chet (Sin) which dwells within me.#7:17 Ro 5:13-14; 6:23
18For I have da'as that there dwells in me, that is, in my basar (my fallen humanity enslaved to Chet Kadmon) no good thing; for the wish [to do what is right] lies ready at hand for me, but to accomplish the good is not.
19For I fail to do good as I wish, but HaRah (The Evil) which I do not wish is what I commit.
20But if what I do not wish is that which I do, it is no longer I doing it but [the power of] Chet (Sin, Chet Kadmon, Original Sin) which dwells within me.#7:20 cf. Ro 8:7-8
21I find then it be a Gezetz that for me who wishes to do HaTov (The Good), that for me HaRah (The Evil) lies ready at hand.
22For I rejoice, I have simcha Torah in the Torah of Hashem, so far as the adam hapenimi#7:22 Ep 3:16 is concerned,
23But I see another gezetz (law) in my natural capacities at milchamah (war) with the Torah of my mind and making me a prisoner to the Gezetz of Chet (Sin) which is [a power] in my natural capacities.
24Wretched man am I! Who will deliver me from the body of this mavet (death)?
25Hodu l'Hashem (thanks be to G-d) baMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu. So then I myself with my mind serve the Torah of Hashem and with my basar I serve the Gezetz of Chet (the Law of Sin).#7:25 The total spiritual turn-around here described is when the conviction of the intellect, emotion, and will “obey from the heart the form of doctrine laid out here in Scripture” as we are born anew in the humanity of the new Man and die to the old depraved Adam
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