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?

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only 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 instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

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 she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries 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.

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear 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 lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for 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, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

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, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is 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.

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

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

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought 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, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

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

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

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

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

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

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave 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.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

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

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

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

In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

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.

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

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 I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to 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.

And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

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

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

22 Me giri ni turon u Irji ni mi sonromu.

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

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 see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

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

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of 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.

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.