软弱与行善

有很多道理我们都懂，可是却办不到或做得不好，原因是我们里面有太多的执着和软弱（或罪）。

就好像圣经中所提到的：我也知道在我里头，就是我肉体之中，没有良善；因为立志为善由得我，只是行出来由不得我。7:18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good {is} not.

故此，我所愿意的善，我反不作；我所不愿意的恶，我倒去作。7:19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 若我去作所不愿意作的，就不是我作的，乃是住在我里头的罪作的。7:20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

我觉得有个律，就是我愿意为善的时候，便有恶与我同在。7:21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 因为按着我里面的意思(原文作“人”)，我是喜欢神的律；7:22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,

但我觉得肢体中另有个律和我心中的律交战，把我掳去，叫我附从那肢体中犯罪的律。7:23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

我真是苦啊！谁能救我脱离这取死的身体呢？7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? 感谢神！靠着我们的主耶稣基督就能脱离了。这样看来，我以内心顺服神的律，我肉体却顺服罪的律了。7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.（罗马书(Romans)）