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?
Surely, friends, you know (for I am speaking to people who know what Law means) that Law has power over a person only as long as they 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 example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him.
3 mba yo de tarawa. U lon mani te quu, “a djur nimi turon ani ta hi gran idi ri ana hi ntara na.
If, then, during her husband’s lifetime, she unites herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband dies, the law has no further hold on her, nor, if she unites herself to another man, is she an adulteress.
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.
And so with you, my friends; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for 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.
When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore 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 we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.
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 are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say ‘You must not covet,’ I should not know what it is to 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 took advantage of the commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.
9 Ni nton ri me he ni siseri u turon ana he na u imbe a ye. i lahtre a tashbe. u mika khu.
There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died!
10 Imbe wa mla du nji siseire ye. U mi toh a he khubuma.
The commandment that should have meant life I found to result in death!
11 Naki latere, a samu kon ni tu imbe, a nji son kpa wa a gurume. U ni tu imbe a wuma.
Sin took advantage of the commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my death.
12 Nakima, ituron a he tsr-tsara, u mlati mba ndendema.
And so the Law is holy, and each commandment is also 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.
Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is.
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 earthly – sold into slavery 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 my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the thing that I hate.
16 U me ta ti ikpi wa mena sona tina, mi kpa nyeme ni turon de ituron a bi.
But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right.
17 Ziza yi ana la he na kina. Ime wa mi ta tikima, u latere wa a he nime.
This being so, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within 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.
I know that there is nothing good in me – I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.
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.
I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do – that I habitually 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.
But, when I do the thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within me.
21 N tu ki u me toh, ituron. Me ta ni son ti kpi dedema, u meme a he hwehwere ni me.
This, then, is the law that I find – when I want to do right, wrong presents itself!
22 Me giri ni turon u Irji ni mi sonromu.
At heart 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 throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of sin which exists throughout my body.
24 Mi idi u ya yi! A gha ni kpame chuwo nimi kpa u ahu?
Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this 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.
Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the Law of God, but with my earthly nature the Law of sin.
