Aroma 7

1 Kodi simukudziwa abale kuti Malamulo ali ndi ulamuliro pa munthu pokhapokha ngati ali ndi moyo? Ine ndikuyankhula kwa anthu amene akudziwa Malamulo.

Or do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a person for as long as he lives?

2 Mwachitsanzo, Malamulo amati mkazi wokwatiwa ndi womangidwa ndi lamulo kwa mwamuna wakeyo nthawi yonse pamene mwamuna wakeyo ali moyo. Koma ngati mwamuna wake amwalira, mkaziyo ndi womasulidwa ku lamulo la ukwati.

For the 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 concerning the husband.

3 Koma ngati iye akwatiwa ndi mwamuna wina pamene mwamuna wake ali moyo, amatchedwa wachigololo. Koma ngati mwamuna wakeyo amwalira, mkaziyo amasuka ku lamulo ndipo si wachigololo, ngakhale kuti wakwatiwa ndi mwamuna wina.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she is called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

4 Chimodzimodzi inunso, abale anga, munafa ku Malamulo kudzera mʼthupi la Khristu, kuti mukwatiwe ndi wina, ndi Iye amene anauka kwa akufa kuti tibalire Mulungu chipatso.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we may bear fruit to God.

5 Pakuti pamene tinkalamulidwa ndi khalidwe lathu lauchimo, zilakolako zauchimo zimene Malamulo anaziwutsa zinkagwira ntchito mʼmatupi mwathu kotero kuti zinabala imfa.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit for death.

6 Koma tsopano tamasulidwa ku Malamulowo pakuti tinafa ku zimene zinkatimanga, ndipo Mzimu Woyera akutithandiza kutumikira Mulungu mʼnjira yatsopano ndipo osati mʼnjira yakale yolembedwa.

But now we have been released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

7 Nanga ife tinene chiyani? Kodi Malamulo ndi oyipa? Ayi. Nʼkosatheka! Kunena zoona, popanda Malamulo, ine sindikanazindikira tchimo. Pakuti sindikanadziwa kuti kusirira ndi tchimo ngati Malamulo sakananena kuti, “Usasirire.”

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness, unless the law had said, "Do not covet."

8 Koma chifukwa cha Malamulo uchimo unapeza mwayi owutsa mʼkati mwanga khalidwe lililonse la kusirira. Pakuti pakanapanda Malamulo, uchimo ukanakhala wopanda mphamvu.

But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

9 Nthawi ina ndinali ndi moyo popanda Malamulo. Koma nditayamba kudziwa Malamulo, pomwepo uchimo unayamba kuphuka,

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died.

10 ndipo ine ndinafa. Ine ndinazindikira kuti Malamulo omwe ankayenera kubweretsa moyo anabweretsa imfa.

The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

11 Pakuti uchimo unapeza mwayi chifukwa cha Malamulo ndipo kudzera mʼMalamulowo, unandinyenga ndi kundiyika mu imfa.

for sin, taking the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

12 Choncho lamulo ndi loyera, lolungama ndi labwino.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

13 Kodi chomwe ndi chabwino tsopano chinasanduka imfa kwa ine? Si choncho ayi! Koma kuti uchimo uzindikirike kuti ndi uchimo unabala imfa mwa ine kudzera mu chomwe chinali chabwino, kotero kuti kudzera mu lamulo uchimo ukhale oyipa kopitirira.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

14 Ife tikudziwa kuti Malamulo ndi auzimu; koma ine ndine munthu wofowoka chabe, wogulitsidwa ngati kapolo ku uchimo.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

15 Ine sindizindikira zimene ndimachita. Pakuti zimene ndimafuna kuchita sindizichita koma zimene ndimadana nazo ndi zimene ndimazichita.

For I do not know what I am doing. For I do not practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

16 Ndipo ngati ndimachita zimene sindimafuna kuzichita, ndiye kuti ndikuvomereza kuti lamulo ndi labwino.

But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

17 Monga mmene zililimu, si inenso mwini amene ndimazichita zimenezi, koma tchimo limene lili mʼkati mwanga.

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

18 Ine ndikudziwa kuti mwa ine mulibe kanthu kabwino, ndiye kuti mʼthupi langa lauchimo. Pakuti ndimafuna kuchita zabwino, koma ndimalephera kuzichita.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For the desire is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

19 Ine sindichita zabwino zimene ndimafuna koma ndimachita zonyansa zimene sindikuzifuna.

For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.

20 Tsopano ngati ine ndimachita zimene sindikuzifuna, si inenso amene ndimazichita, koma ndi tchimo limene lili mʼkati mwanga.

But if what I do not desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

21 Tsono ndapeza kuti lamuloli likugwira ntchito. Ngakhale ndimafuna kuchita zabwino, zoyipa zili nane pomwepo.

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

22 Mtima wanga umakondwera ndi lamulo la Mulungu.

For I delight in God's law in my inner being,

23 Koma mʼkati mwanga ndimaona lamulo lina likugwira ntchito kulimbana ndi zomwe mtima wanga umavomereza. Lamulo limenelo landisandutsa wamʼndende walamulo la uchimo lomwe likugwira ntchito mʼkati mwa ziwalo zanga.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

24 Kalanga ine! Adzandipulumutsa ndani ku thupi la imfali?

What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

25 Atamandike Mulungu, amene amandipulumutsa kudzera mwa Yesu Khristu Ambuye athu! Kotero tsono, ineyo ndi mtima wanga ndimatumikira lamulo la Mulungu, koma ndi thupi langa ndimatumikira lamulo la uchimo.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.