1 W hat shall we say ? Are we to remain in sin in order that God’s grace (favor and mercy) may multiply and overflow?

فَماذا نَقُولُ؟ أنَبقَى فِي الخَطِيَّةِ لِكَي تَزدادَ نِعمَةُ اللهِ؟

2 C ertainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

بِالطَّبعِ لا! نَحنُ الَّذِينَ مُتنا بِالنِّسبَةِ لِلخَطِيَّةِ، كَيفَ نُواصِلُ العَيشَ فِيها؟

3 A re you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

أمْ أنَّكُمْ لا تَعلَمُونَ أنَّنا نَحنُ الَّذِينَ تَعَمَّدنا مُتَّحِدينَ بِالمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ، قَدْ تَعَمَّدنا لِنَشتَرِكَ مَعَهُ فِي مَوتِهِ؟

4 W e were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious of the Father, so we too might live and behave in newness of life.

فَقَدْ دُفِنّا مَعَهُ مِنْ خِلالِ مَعمُودِيَّتِنا لِنَشتَرِكَ مَعَهُ فِي مَوتِهِ، حَتَّى كَما أُقِيمَ المَسِيحُ مِنَ المَوتِ بِقُوَّةِ الآبِ المَجِيدَةِ، نَسلُكُ نَحنُ أيضاً فِي حَياةٍ جَدِيدَةٍ.

5 F or if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be His resurrection.

فَبِما أنَّنا اتَّحَدْنا مَعَهُ فِي مَوتٍ يُشبِهُ مَوتَهُ، فَسَنَتَّحِدُ مَعَهُ أيضاً فِي قِيامَةٍ تُشبِهُ قِيامَتَهُ.

6 W e know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that body of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin.

وَنَحنُ نَعلَمُ أنَّ ذاتَنا العَتِيقَةَ قَدْ صُلِبَتْ مَعَ المَسِيحِ لِكَي لا نَخضَعَ فِيما بَعْدُ لِذَواتِنا الأثِيمَةِ، فَلا نَعُودَ عَبِيداً لِلخَطِيَّةِ.

7 F or when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from sin.

لِأنَّ الَّذِي يَمُوتُ، يَتَحَرَّرُ مِنْ قُوَّةِ الخَطِيَّةِ.

8 N ow if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

وَبِما أنَّنا مُتنا مَعَ المَسِيحِ، فَإنَّنا نُؤمِنُ بِأنَّنا سَنَحيا أيضاً مَعَهُ.

9 B ecause we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him.

فَنَحنُ نَعرِفُ أنَّ المَسِيحَ الَّذِي أُقِيمَ مِنَ المَوتِ، لا يَمُوتُ ثانِيَةً، وَلَنْ يَسُودَ عَلَيهِ المَوتُ ثانِيَةً.

10 F or by the death He died, He died to sin once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God.

فَالمَوتُ الَّذِي اختَبَرَهُ المَسِيحُ، كانَ لِكَي يَهزِمَ الخَطِيَّةَ مَرَّةً واحِدَةً نِهائِيَّةً. أمّا الحَياةُ الَّتِي يَحياها، فَيَحياها للهِ.

11 E ven so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

فَاعتَبِرُوا أنتُمْ أنفُسَكُمْ أمواتاً بِالنِّسبَةِ لِلخَطِيَّةِ، وَلَكِنْ أحياءً بِالنِّسبَةِ للهِ فِي المَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ.

12 L et not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions.

إذاً لا يَنبَغِي أنْ تَسمَحُوا لِلخَطِيَّةِ بِأنْ تَتَحَكَّمَ بِأجسامِكُمُ الفانِيَةِ، فَتَجعَلَكُمْ تُطِيعُونَ رَغَباتِها الشِّرِّيرَةِ.

13 D o not continue offering or yielding your bodily members '> faculties] to sin as instruments (tools) of wickedness. But offer and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from the dead to life, and your bodily members '> faculties] to God, presenting them as implements of righteousness.

وَلا تُقَدِّمُوا أعضاءَ أجسامِكُمْ لِلخَطِيَّةِ كَأدَواتٍ فِي خِدمَةِ الإثمِ، بَلْ قَدِّمُوا أنفُسَكُمْ كَما يَلِيقُ بِمَنْ نالُوا حَياةً بَعدَ مَوتِهِمْ وَأُقِيمُوا مِنَ المَوتِ. وَقَدِّمُوا أعضاءَ أجسامِكُمْ للهِ كَأدَواتٍ لِلبِرِّ، وَفِي خِدمَةِ البِرِّ.

14 F or sin shall not exert dominion over you, since now you are not under Law, but under grace.

وَلَنْ تَسُودَ الخَطِيَّةُ عَلَيكُمْ، لِأنَّكُمْ لا تَحيَونَ تَحتَ الشَّرِيعَةِ، بَلْ تَحتَ نِعمَةِ اللهِ. عَبِيدٌ لِلبِرّ

15 W hat then ? Shall we sin because we live not under Law but under God’s favor and mercy? Certainly not!

فَماذا نَفعَلُ؟ أيَجوزُ لَنا أنْ نُخطِئَ لِأنَّنا لا نَحيا تَحتَ الشَّرِيعَةِ، بَلْ تَحتَ نِعمَةِ اللهِ؟ بِالطَّبعِ لا!

16 D o you not know that if you continually surrender yourselves to anyone to do his will, you are the slaves of him whom you obey, whether that be to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience which leads to righteousness (right doing and right standing with God)?

ألا تَعرِفُونَ أنَّكُمْ حِينَ تَضَعُونَ أنفُسَكُمْ تَحتَ تَصَرُّفِ شَخصٍ لِتُطِيعُوهُ، فَإنَّكُمْ تَكُونُونَ عَبِيداً لِمَنْ تُطِيعُونَ؟ فَالعُبُودِيَّةُ لِلخَطِيَّةِ تُؤَدِّي إلَى المَوتِ، وَالعُبُودِيَّةُ لِطاعَةِ اللهِ تُؤَدِّي إلَى البِرِّ.

17 B ut thank God, though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed.

لَكِنْ شُكراً للهِ لِأنَّكُمْ، رُغمَ أنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ عَبِيداً لِلخَطِيَّةِ، أطَعتُمْ مِنْ كُلِّ القَلبِ التَّعلِيمَ الَّذِي سُلِّمَ إلَيكُمْ.

18 A nd having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action).

فَتَحَرَّرتُمْ مِنَ الخَطِيَّةِ، وَأصبَحتُمْ عَبِيداً لِلبِرِّ.

19 I am speaking in familiar human terms because of your natural limitations. For as you yielded your bodily members '> faculties] as servants to impurity and ever increasing lawlessness, so now yield your bodily members '> faculties] once for all as servants to righteousness (right being and doing) to sanctification.

أنا أستَخدِمُ تَشبيهاتٍ بَشَريَّةً بِسَبَبِ ضَعفِكُمْ. لَقَدْ قَدَّمتُمْ فِيما مَضَى أعضاءَ أجسامِكُمْ لِلنَّجاسَةِ وَالإثمِ، فَكُنتُمْ عَبِيداً لَها. وَكانَ الإثمُ هُوَ الثَّمَرُ. فَالآنَ يَنبَغيْ أنْ تُقَدِّموا أعضاءَ أجسامِكُمْ لِحَياةِ البِرِّ، لِتَكُونُوا عَبِيداً لِلبِرِّ، وَتَكُونَ القَداسَةُ هِيَ الثَّمَرُ.

20 F or when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

فَحِينَ كُنتُمْ عَبِيداً لِلخَطِيَّةِ، كُنتُمْ غَيرَ خاضِعِينَ لِلبِرِّ.

21 B ut then what benefit (return) did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

فَأيُّ نَوعٍ مِنَ الثَّمَرِ كانَ لَكُمْ آنَذاكَ؟ كانَ ثَمَراً تَخْجَلونَ مِنْهُ الآنَ، وَنَتيجَتُهُ النِّهائِيَّةُ هِيَ المَوتُ.

22 B ut now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life.

أمّا الآنَ وَقَدْ تَحَرَّرتُمْ مِنَ الخَطِيَّةِ وَصِرتُمْ عَبِيداً للهِ، فَلَكُمْ ثَمَرُ القَداسَةِ، وَالنَتيجَةُ هِيَ الحَياةُ الأبَدِيَّةُ.

23 F or the wages which sin pays is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

لِأنَّ الأجرَ الَّذِي يُدفَعُ مُقابِلَ الخَطِيَّةِ هُوَ المَوتُ، أمّا عَطِيَةُ اللهِ المَجّانِيَّةُ، فَهِيَ حَياةٌ أبَدِيَّةٌ فِي المَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ رَبِّنا.