旧约时代神的律法，乃用字句写在石版；但是现今生命的律，是由圣灵写在心坎。
In ancient times the law of God
In letter was engraved on stone;
But now it is a law of life,
Which in our heart is written down.

字句律法要人为善，人的软弱借此显明；生命的律乃是供应，使人享受神的大能。
The law in letters good demands
And thus our utter weakness shows;
But now the law of life sustains,
And strength for God to please bestows.

字句律法乃在外面，使我对神有所认识；生命的律是在里面，供我以神更深启示。
The law in letters brings to us
God's knowledge only outwardly;
But now the law of life supplies
A deeper knowledge inwardly.

字句律法乃在外面，借着死的诫命管治；生命的律是在里面，借着活的知识节制。
The law in letters can but rule
By dead commandments outwardly;
But now the law of life controls
By living knowledge inwardly.

这个活的生命之律，在我里面多方运行，照着里面生命感觉，从我里面管治、规正。
This living law is moving now
In all of our experience,
To regulate us from within
And check us by our inner sense.

这个管治极细、极深，在我全人最深之处，带来活的生命感觉，将神自己向我供输。
How deep its regulation is
Within the inmost part of us,
A living consciousness to give,
And God Himself impart to us.

因这活的生命之律，外面教导，就不需要；对神一切活的认识，从我里面，这律教导。
'Tis by this living law of life
We need no teaching outwardly,
For all God's living knowledge now
This law will teach us inwardly.

主，教我凭这律行动，顺服它的里面管理，对你我有活的认识，并得享受你的自己。
Lord, teach us by this law to walk,
Its inner ruling to obey,
That we may of Thyself partake
And know Thee in a living way.