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Romanos 7

La Biblia de las Américas (Español) BLA

1 ¿Acaso ignoráis, hermanos (pues hablo a los que conocen la ley), que la ley tiene jurisdicción sobre una persona mientras vive?

2 Pues la mujer casada está ligada por la ley a su marido mientras él vive; pero si su marido muere, queda libre de la ley en cuanto al marido.

3 Así que, mientras vive su marido, será llamada adúltera si ella se une a otro hombre; pero si su marido muere, está libre de la ley, de modo que no es adúltera aunque se una a otro hombre.

4 Por tanto, hermanos míos, también a vosotros se os hizo morir a la ley por medio del cuerpo de Cristo, para que seáis unidos a otro, a aquel que resucitó de entre los muertos, a fin de que llevemos fruto para Dios.

5 Porque mientras estábamos en la carne, las pasiones pecaminosas despertadas por la ley, actuaban en los miembros de nuestro cuerpo a fin de llevar fruto para muerte.

6 Pero ahora hemos quedado libres de la ley, habiendo muerto a lo que nos ataba, de modo que sirvamos en la novedad del Espíritu y no en el arcaísmo de la letra.

7 ¿Qué diremos entonces? ¿Es pecado la ley? ¡De ningún modo! Al contrario, yo no hubiera llegado a conocer el pecado si no hubiera sido por medio de la ley; porque yo no hubiera sabido lo que es la codicia, si la ley no hubiera dicho: NO CODICIARAS.

8 Pero el pecado, aprovechándose del mandamiento, produjo en mí toda clase de codicia; porque aparte de la ley el pecado está muerto.

9 Y en un tiempo yo vivía sin la ley, pero al venir el mandamiento, el pecado revivió, y yo morí;

10 y este mandamiento, que era para vida, a mí me resultó para muerte;

11 porque el pecado, aprovechándose del mandamiento, me engañó, y por medio de él me mató.

12 Así que la ley es santa, y el mandamiento es santo, justo y bueno.

13 ¿Entonces lo que es bueno vino a ser causa de muerte para mí? ¡De ningún modo! Al contrario, fue el pecado, a fin de mostrarse que es pecado al producir mi muerte por medio de lo que es bueno, para que por medio del mandamiento el pecado llegue a ser en extremo pecaminoso.

14 Porque sabemos que la ley es espiritual, pero yo soy carnal, vendido a la esclavitud del pecado.

15 Porque lo que hago, no lo entiendo; porque no practico lo que quiero hacer, sino que lo que aborrezco, eso hago.

16 Y si lo que no quiero hacer, eso hago, estoy de acuerdo con la ley, reconociendo que es buena.

17 Así que ya no soy yo el que lo hace, sino el pecado que habita en mí.

18 Porque yo sé que en mí, es decir, en mi carne, no habita nada bueno; porque el querer está presente en mí, pero el hacer el bien, no.

19 Pues no hago el bien que deseo, sino que el mal que no quiero, eso practico.

20 Y si lo que no quiero hacer, eso hago, ya no soy yo el que lo hace, sino el pecado que habita en mí.

21 Así que, queriendo yo hacer el bien, hallo la ley de que el mal está presente en mí.

22 Porque en el hombre interior me deleito con la ley de Dios,

23 pero veo otra ley en los miembros de mi cuerpo que hace guerra contra la ley de mi mente, y me hace prisionero de la ley del pecado que está en mis miembros.

24 ¡Miserable de mí! ¿Quién me libertará de este cuerpo de muerte?

25 Gracias a Dios, por Jesucristo Señor nuestro. Así que yo mismo, por un lado, con la mente sirvo a la ley de Dios, pero por el otro, con la carne, a la ley del pecado.

The Message Bible MSG

1 You shouldn't have any trouble understanding this, friends, for you know all the ins and outs of the law - how it works and how its power touches only the living.

2 For instance, a wife is legally tied to her husband while he lives, but if he dies, she's free.

3 If she lives with another man while her husband is living, she's obviously an adulteress. But if he dies, she is quite free to marry another man in good conscience, with no one's disapproval.

4 So, my friends, this is something like what has taken place with you. When Christ died he took that entire rule-dominated way of life down with him and left it in the tomb, leaving you free to "marry" a resurrection life and bear "offspring" of faith for God.

5 For as long as we lived that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away with, sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed us in. And this made us all the more rebellious. In the end, all we had to show for it was miscarriages and stillbirths.

6 But now that we're no longer shackled to that domineering mate of sin, and out from under all those oppressive regulations and fine print, we're free to live a new life in the freedom of God.

7 But I can hear you say, "If the law code was as bad as all that, it's no better than sin itself." That's certainly not true. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. Apart from the succinct, surgical command, "You shall not covet," I could have dressed covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruined my life with it.

8 Don't you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of "forbidden fruit" out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless,

9 and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it.

10 The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong.

11 So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead.

12 But the law code itself is God's good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.

13 I can already hear your next question: "Does that mean I can't even trust what is good [that is, the law]? Is good just as dangerous as evil?" No again! Sin simply did what sin is so famous for doing: using the good as a cover to tempt me to do what would finally destroy me. By hiding within God's good commandment, sin did far more mischief than it could ever have accomplished on its own.

14 I can anticipate the response that is coming: "I know that all God's commands are spiritual, but I'm not. Isn't this also your experience?" Yes. I'm full of myself - after all, I've spent a long time in sin's prison.

15 What I don't understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise.

16 So if I can't be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God's command is necessary.

17 But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help!

18 I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it.

19 I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway.

20 My decisions, such as they are, don't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.

21 It happens so regularly that it's predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up.

22 I truly delight in God's commands,

23 but it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge.

24 I've tried everything and nothing helps. I'm at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn't that the real question?

25 The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.