Romawa 7

1 Immriya, bi na toh na (me tere ni tu be wa mba toh turon) a ndi ituron a he ni son siseri ma?

Know you not, brethren, for I speak to you that are acquainted with law, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

2 Nitu turon imba be gran mba he nimi lo. wa mba lon mba ba he ni sissri, wa a lu ka son ni idiri,

For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 mba yo de tarawa. U lon mani te quu, “a djur nimi turon ani ta hi gran idi ri ana hi ntara na.

So then, if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband die, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4 Nakima, imri ya mu, mba du yi quu ni mi turo u mi kpa Almasihu, nakima. Ba du yi gran idiri wa mba ta shibe ni kubbu, de khi gdi imiri ni Irji.

So then, my brethren, you, also, have died to the law, by the body of the Christ, in order that you may be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit to God.

5 Naki khi he ni mi kpa. Ison u kpa a ni chonta yo ni turon u khi gdi imiri ni mi khwu. Nakima ziza mba chuta djur ni mi turonye. Khi khwu nimi ikpi wa mba lota.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:

6 Zizah mba kpata chuwo ni turon. Khi na khwu nimi kpe a na lota a he nakhi du khi zere ni nkon sisama ni Ibrji. Ana he ni mi ha cice turo'a gana.

but now we are made free from the law, being dead to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 Ziza khi tere de geh? wawu turon tuma a hi illa tere? Ana he naki na, nakima, anita na he ni tu turon na khina toh na ituron a hla mba ime mide na gaire ikpi idi na.

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.

8 E, lahtere a dhi ni mi dokoki da ji son kpa ye wa a he ni mi kpamu. bubu wa turon na he na latere a kubuma.

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, rendered active within me every evil desire. For without the law, sin was dead.

9 Ni nton ri me he ni siseri u turon ana he na u imbe a ye. i lahtre a tashbe. u mika khu.

Indeed, I was alive without the law, once; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died:

10 Imbe wa mla du nji siseire ye. U mi toh a he khubuma.

and the commandment, which was given for life, I found to be for death.

11 Naki latere, a samu kon ni tu imbe, a nji son kpa wa a gurume. U ni tu imbe a wuma.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

12 Nakima, ituron a he tsr-tsara, u mlati mba ndendema.

Therefore, the law is holy, and the commandment, holy and just and good.

13 E, u ikpi dedema ni mu a hi khuu naki? a he naki nitu imbe lahtere a he latere.

Has, then, that which is good become death to me? It can not be. But sin, that it, might appear sin, was causing death to me through that which is good, in order that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

14 U khi toh ituron u ibrji u me mihe ni mi kpa mbana ka me le ti gran ni latere

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin.

15 Ni kpi wa meti me na mla toh na ikpi wa mina son ti me na ti na u kpi wa mina son na. Me kpa wa me kamu niwu mi tie u.

For what I do, I know not: for that which I wish to do, this I do not; but that which I hate, this I do.

16 U me ta ti ikpi wa mena sona tina, mi kpa nyeme ni turon de ituron a bi.

If, then, I do that which I wish not to do, I give assent to the law, that it is good.

17 Ziza yi ana la he na kina. Ime wa mi ta tikima, u latere wa a he nime.

Now, then, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

18 Mi toh deni mi kpamu mina ti ikpi dedema nitu imere u ti kpi dedema a he ni me u mina ya ti u na.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good; for to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not.

19 Ni tu ikpi dedema wa mi son ti wu mina ya tiwu na, u meme tie wa mina sona, wa we yi me ti.

For the good that I wish to do, I do not; but the evil that I wish not to do, this I do.

20 U mita ti ikpi wa mi nason ti'a na. Ee, ana he imeyi mi si tiu na a hi memeti wa a he ni me'a.

Now, if I do that which I wish not to do, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

21 N tu ki u me toh, ituron. Me ta ni son ti kpi dedema, u meme a he hwehwere ni me.

I find, then, this law: That, when I wish to do good, evil is present with me.

22 Me giri ni turon u Irji ni mi sonromu.

For, in the inward man, I delight in the law of God:

23 U me toh ituron ni kankan nimi kpamu, mba ti ku ni turon sama wa a he nimi imere mu da ni yome ti gra ni tu turon latere wa a he ni kwma kpamu.

but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.

24 Mi idi u ya yi! A gha ni kpame chuwo nimi kpa u ahu?

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body that subjects me to death?

25 U me giri ni Irji ni tu Yesu Almasihu itibu. na ki ime ni tumu mi hu ituron u Irji ni sonron mu ko ni he, ni mi kpa me hu turo u latere.

I thank God that I shall be delivered through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind, serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.