Romah 7
1 Acunakyase, ka püie aw, thum nami ksingkiea kyase i ka pyen khai ti cun nami ksingkie ni. Khyang a xünga küt üng thum naw upki.
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 Avaisüa a cei vekia nghnumi cun a cei am a thiha küt üng thuma keha veki, a cei a thih käna cei mahnaka thum üng lätki.
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 Acunakyase, a cei a xüng k'um üng kpami akce a vepüi üng ani cun a ceia khana am sitihki ti khaie. A cei a thih üng ta acuna thum üngka naw mhläta kyase, akce a ceinak be üng pi nghnumi “am sitihkia” am kya.
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 Acunakyase, ka püie aw, Thum cun asängeia küt üng nangmi pi nami thiki, isetiakyaküng nangmi cun Khritawa kphyema nami kyaki. Nangmi cun thihnak üngka naw tho beki Jesuha mtisa kyase nangmi cun Pamhnama khut pawhnak üng ning jah summangei vai ni.
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 Mtisa thuma mi xüngsei üng thum naw mtisa mkhyekatnak mthümhlet law se Thum naw mtisa üng khut bi lü avan thihnak üng mi dütki.
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 Cunsepi, tuhkbäihta jah mankia Thum üngka naw mi lätki, isetiakyaküng, acun üng mimi cun mi thi pängkia akyaka phäha ni. Thum kphyüm üng yuka kba mi khüikia am kya lü, Ngmüimkhya thum kthai üng mi khüiki ni.
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 Acunüng, Thum a mät kung hin mkhyekatnaka kyaki mi ti khai aw? Am ni! Cunsepi, Mkhyekatnak na ksingsaki cun Thum ni. “Khyanga ka käh na hnaihei vai,” tia Thum naw am a pyen üng ta acuna hnaiheinak ta ini tia am ksing veng.
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 Cunsepi, mkhyekatnak naw ngthupet ngmangei na lü hnaiheinak naküt ka khana ve lawsaki. Thuma kaa mkhyekatnak akthi ni.
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 Kamät kung pi thuma kaa ka xüngki; cunsepi ngthupet a ve law ja, mkhyekatnak xüng lawki;
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
10 Acunüng, kei ka thiki. Xünnak vaia ngthupet cun ka phäha thihnaka kyaki.
So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
11 Mkhyekatnak naw thum ngmangei na lü, na mhlei lü acuna thum am na hnimki.
For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
12 Acunakyase, Thum cun ngcimcaihki, acunüng ngthupet cun ngcimcaih lü ngsungpyun lü dawki.
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
13 Akdaw pawh cun, ka phäha thihnaka kyaki aw? Am kya. Mkhyekatnak ni ka phäha thihnaka a kya ve; acunakyase, mkhyekatnak cun mkhyekatnak tia angdangnak thei vaia akdaw sumei lü na hnimki; mkhyekatnak cun ngthupeta phäha aktäa mkhyekatnak tia mdanki.
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 Thum cun ngmüimkya lama kyaki tia mi ksingki; cunsepi, kei cun mtisa lama mkhyekatnaka mpyaa jawiha ka kyaki.
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
15 Ka pawh am ka ksingki; ka pawh hlü am pawh lü, acuna hnün üng am ka hlüei ka pawhki.
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
16 Acukba am ka pawh hlü ka pawh üng Thum cun cangki tia ka jumki.
And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
17 Acunakyase, acuna am dawki ka pawh cun keia pawha am kya lü, mkhyekatnak kei üng vekia a pawha ni akya ve.
In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
18 Kei üng akdaw i am ve tia ka ksingki; acun hin mtisa lama kyaki, akdaw pawh hlünak cun kei üng ve teki, akdaw i am pawh ngü.
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 Akdaw ka pawh hlü am pawh lü; acuna nghnün üng am ka pawh hlü akse ka pawhki.
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 Am ka pawh hlü ka pawh khawi üng, pawhki cun keia am kya lü, mkhyekatnak kei üng vekia ni akya ve.
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 Acunakyase, hina thum ka ksing lawki; akdaw pawh vai ka ti üng akse ni ka xüei ta.
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22 Ka mlungkyawng kcang üng cun Pamhnama thum üng aktäa ka jeki.
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
23 Cunsepi, ka mtisa ja ka kutkhawe üng thum kce veki tia ka ksingki, acun naw ka mlungkyawng thum ngcawhpüi lü, ka mtisa ja ka kutkhawe üng vekia mkhyekatnak ngthupeta kut üng mpyaa na pawhki.
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 Khuikha veng! Thihnaka na cehpüiki hina mtisa üngkhyüh u naw na yung khai ni?
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Mi Bawipa Jesuh Khritawa üngkhyüh ahin pawhkia Pamhnama veia jenak ka mthehki. Acunakyase, ka mlungmthin lama Pamhnama thuma mpyaa ka kyaki, mtisa lama mkhyekatnaka thuma mpyaa ka kyaki.
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.
