Romawa 8

1 Nakima, ba kayarwa ziza'an ni biwa ba hei nimi Almasihu Yesu.

There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus;

2 Na ka'adar Ibrji u vri nimi Almasihu Yesu a kam tati bi kpa chuwo ni kaidar lahtre ni kwu.

for through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life-giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

3 Nakima ikpie wa itro na iya ti u na, don kuyer u kpa. Irji ati. A toh vren ma ni kamani kpa u lahtre don a kam ti hadaya, don lahtre, sei wa ati Allah wadai ni lahtre ni mi kpa.

What Law could not do, in so far as our earthly nature weakened its action, God did, by sending his own Son, with a nature resembling our sinful nature, to atone for sin. He condemned sin in that earthly nature,

4 Ati naki du bukatar tron da kpa shu ni mi bu. Kita wa ki si zren ni gwargwadon kpa na, naki u gwagwardon ruhaniya.

so that the requirements of the Law might be satisfied in us who live now in obedience, not to our earthly nature, but to the Spirit.

5 Biwa ba si zren ni gwagwardon kpa, baka to ndu u kpa, naki biwa basi zren ni gwargwadon Ibrji didi, baka you suron ni du u Ibrji didi.

They who follow their earthly nature are earthly-minded, while they who follow the Spirit are spiritually minded.

6 Wallafa ivri ni kpa ahi kwu, aman wallafa ivri ni Ibrji didi ivri u sun si.

To be earthly-minded means Death, to be spiritually minded means Life and Peace;

7 Ahei naki nitu wallafa ivri ni kpa, ani yi gaba ni Rji, naki ana ti biyaya ni tron Rji na, balle ma ka yah.

because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.

8 Biwa ba hei ni mi kpa bana no Rji kikla suron na.

They who are earthly cannot please God.

9 Naki bi na hei nimi kpa na, aman ndi wa ana hei ni Ibrji u Almasihu, ndi kima na hi u ma na.

You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ;

10 In Almasihu hei ni mime, ikpa me hi kub ni lahtre, aman Ibrji didi si zren nitu didi.

but, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is Life as a consequence of righteousness.

11 Inde Ibrji didi wa a zu Yesu ni be, ahei ni vri ni mi ku, wa wu wa a zu Almasihu ni be, ani no ivri ni kpabi, wa ba kpa risu ni Ibrji ma, wa asi zren nimi bi.

And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give Life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you.

12 To mri yah ki hei ni hakki, aman ana hei nitu kpa na, wa ki zren nitu tabiar kpa.

So then, Brothers, we owe nothing to our earthly nature, that we should live in obedience to it.

13 Nakima inde bisi zren gwargwado kpa bi kwu nakima, ama inde ni Ibrji didi, bi ka wuu idu wu kpa, i bi rayu.

If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.

14 Nakima biwa ba Ibrji Rji hei nituba, ba mri Rji.

All who are guided by the Spirit of God are Sons of God.

15 Nakima bina kpa Ibrji gran wa ani yo sisira na. nakima i bi kpa Ibrji tsartsra u diyanci nitu kiman i ki, kie zu lan di ni you Abba iti!

For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a son which leads us to cry ‘Abba, Our Father.’

16 Nituma ani hla niu Ibrji tsatsra bu di kita ki mri Rji.

The Spirit himself unites with our spirits in bearing witness to our being God’s children,

17 Inde ki mri Rji, ai ki mri bi gadoma kena, bi gado Rji. Nakima inde ki ti yah ni wu, i ba nota niko ni wu game.

and if children, then heirs — heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, since we share Christ’s sufferings in order that we may also share his Glory.

18 Nakima mi toh di iyah bi itoh yi ana tsra waba no nikoh wa ba tsro ta na.

I do not count the sufferings of our present life worthy of mention when compared with the Glory that is to be revealed and bestowed upon us.

19 Nakima na halitta niti titan ye mri Rji.

All Nature awaits with eager expectation the appearing of the Sons of God.

20 Nakima ba ya halitta hle ga migye, ana hei ni mere mri na, na wawu wa aya hle ga megyen. Ahei ni mi yo yu'u u njaji.

For Nature was made subject to imperfection — not by its own choice, but owing to him who made it so —

21 Tre di halitta ni tuma ba kpa chuwo ni gran u gla. naki ba jin u ye nimi kpa chuwo u gbre san u nikoh mri Rji.

yet not without the hope that some day Nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the Glory of the Children of God.

22 Naki ki toh i halitta wawu'u ahi u kpa chuchu ni yi ne har ye ziza'a.

We know, indeed, that all Nature alike has been groaning in the pains of labour to this very hour.

23 Ana hei naki ni kankrji na, ko kita ni tubu wa ki wir u mumla u Ibrji Tsatsra kita ni tubu ki, kie kpa chuchu ni mi ne bu, hi kie gbe diyancin bu, wato kpa chuwo u kpa bu.

And not Nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit — we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as Sons — the redemption of our bodies.

24 Nakima i wayi gbigbi ba kpa ta chuwo. Naki inde ikpi wa ki kpa yeme di ba tiu kina toh rina. Naki a ghan wa asi you suron njaji ikpi asi toh?

By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes?

25 Naki inde ki hei ni kpah yeme ikpi wa ki ri he u toh u, kika gbe ni vu suron.

But when we hope for what is not before our eyes, then we wait for it with patience.

26 Nakima Ibrji Tsatsra si zo kuyere bu. Naki kina hei ni toh yadda ki bre aman Ibrji tsatsrani tuma ni bre ni tu hu ni kpa chuchu wa bana yah tre ana.

So, also, the Spirit supports us in our weakness. We do not even know how to pray as we should; but the Spirit himself pleads for us in sighs that can find no utterance.

27 Wawu wa ani wa suron, asi toh mere Ibrji Tsatsra, don asi bre ni tu biwa ba kpa njaji nitu imere Rji.

Yet he who searches all our hearts knows what the Spirit’s meaning is, because the pleadings of the Spirit for Christ’s People are in accordance with his will.

28 Ki toh di biwa ba son Rji, ani ti ikpi ba wawu du ba hi ni didi, hi ni bi wa ba you ba wawu nitu mere ma. Ikpi ba wawu ba kma tie didima.

But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him — those who have received the Call in accordance with his purpose.

29 Naki ma bi wa a toh ba ni sen mu, baba i a kardara ba kma ti kamani ivre ma, don a kma ti vre ma u mumla ni mi mri ya gbugbuu.

For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many Brothers.

30 Biwa a kardara, a you ba, baba i a you ba, a kpa ba chuwo, baba biwa a kpa ba chuwo, baba i a zu ba.

And those whom God destined for this he also called; and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous; and those whom he pronounced righteous he also brought to Glory.

31 Ki tre nitu kpi bi yi inde Rji hei ta, ahi nghan ni you ti ni shishi?

What are we to say, then, in the light of all this? If God is on our side, who can there be against us?

32 Wawu wa ana ka vre ma yun tana da ban nota wawu bu'u agye ni zu duna nota kpi ba wawu na ni wu ngame?

God did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all; will he not, then, with him, freely give us all things?

33 A ghan ni tsro wo ni biwa Rji a chuba? Irji wawu hi u kpachuwo.

Who will bring a charge against any of God’s People? He who pronounces them righteous is God!

34 Ahi ghan ni hukunta? Almasihu kwu nitu bu har zan naki, wawu wa ba, asi ti mulki ni Rji ni bubu u daukaka, wawu i si bre nitu bu.

Who is there to condemn them? He who died for us is Christ Jesus! — or, rather, it was he who was raised from the dead, and who is now at God’s right hand and is even pleading on our behalf!

35 A gha ni gata ni son u Rji? iya, ko kpa suron time, ko tsanani ko iyuo, ko zre ni gbere, ko kpalu, ko nji gban?

Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?

36 Na di ba han, nitume ba wu ta ni kurji, ba kma ta ti itama bi han.

Scripture says — ‘For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’

37 Ni kpi ba wawu ki zan gbengblen duba tre di kita ki bi kpaka, ni tu ma wa ani son ta.

Yet amidst all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us!

38 Naki mi kpa nyeme di ko kwu, ko ivri, ko malaiku, ko mulkoki ko ikpi bi ye, ko gbengblen.

For I am persuaded that neither Death, nor Life, nor Angels, nor Archangels, nor the Present, nor the Future, nor any Powers,

39 Ko gbron, ko juju, ko irin halitta rime bana iya gah ta ni son wu Rji na, wa ahei ni mi Almasihu Yesu Bachi ba na.

nor Height, nor Depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord!