Jo-Rumi 7
1 Koso ukia, owetena, nikech awuoyo gi joma ongʼeyo chik, ni chik otweyo ngʼato mana ka pod ongima?
ARE you unacquainted, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know the law, ) that the law exercises dominion over a person for as long time as he liveth?
2 Kuom ranyisi, dhako mokendi Chik otweyo gi chwore mana ka chwore pod ngima; to ka chwore otho, to ogonye e chik mar kend.
For the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband.
3 Kamano bende, ibiro luong dhakono ni jachode ka odak gi dichwo machielo ka chwore pod ngima. To ka chwore otho, to ogonye kuom chikno kendo ka dichwo machielo okende to ok kwane kaka jachode.
She shall therefore certainly be counted an adulteress, if, her husband being alive, she be for another man: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law; so that she shall be no adulteress, though married to another husband.
4 Kamano owetena, un bende, usetho korka chik kuom ringre Kristo, mondo koro ubed jo-ngʼat machielo, ma en Jal mosechier oa kuom joma otho, mondo eka wanyag olemo ne Nyasaye.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.
5 Nimar kane pod ringruok chikowa, chik ne chiewo gombowa maricho, kendo negitiyoe ringrewa, omiyo ne wanyago olemo makelo tho.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 To sani, nikech wasetho ne gima notweyowa chon, mondo wabed wasumbini, ok manie bwo chik machon mondiki, to manie ngima manyien kuom Roho.
But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter.
7 Kare koro wanyalo wacho angʼo? Chik en richo koso? Ok kamano ngangʼ! Adiera, dine ok angʼeyo gima richo en ka dine onge chik. Nimar bende dine ok angʼeyo gima chik en ka dine ok owacho niya, “Kik igombi gir wadu.”
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 To richo nokawo thuolo mane chik okelo mopidho kit gombo mayoreyore kuoma nimar ka chik onge to richo otho.
But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead.
9 Mokwongo kane chik onge, to ne angima, to ka Chik nobiro, to richo nochier kuoma mi atho.
For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.
10 Nanwangʼo ni chikno, mane onego okel ngima, nolokore mokelo tho.
And the commandment, which was for life, the same was found by me for death.
11 Nimar richo nokawo thuolo mane chik okelo, mowuonda, kendo okonyore gi chikno mondo onega.
For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.
12 Omiyo Chik ler, kendo chike moketi bende ler, kendo nikare, to kendo ber.
So then the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Dibed ni gima ber ema nomiyo atho koso? Ok kamano kata matin! Richo notiyo gi gima ber, mi onega, mondo richo ongʼere malongʼo ni en angʼo. Kamano chik nyiso ni richo en gima rach moloyo.
Did then that which is good become fatal to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin by that which was good in itself, was the cause of death to me; that sin through the commandment might become transcendantly sinful.
14 Wangʼeyo ni Chik en gir chuny; to an ngʼat ringruok, kendo richo osengʼiewa moloka misumbane.
For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 Gik ma atimo odhiera ngʼeyo. Nimar ok atim gik ma adwaro, to atimo mana gik ma ok adwar.
For that which I am doing I approve not: for not the thing which I wish, that do I practise; but the very thing I hate, that I do.
16 Koro ka atimo gik ma ok adwar, to mano nyiso ni Chik ber.
But if what I would not, that I do, I concur with the law that it is excellent.
17 Chutho, an ok ema atim gino, to richo manie iya ema time.
Now then no more I do this, but sin dwelling in me.
18 Angʼeyo ni onge gimoro kata achiel maber manie iya, tiende ni, kita mar richo. Nimar an-gi gombo mar timo gima ber to ok anyal time.
For I know that there dwelleth not in me (that is, in my flesh) any good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 Nimar ok atim gima ber ma adwaro mondo atim to asiko atimo mana gima rach.
For I do not the good which I wish: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Koro ka atimo gima ok adwar timo, to koro an ok ema atime, to richo modak e iya ema time.
If then I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 Omiyo ayudo chikni katiyo: Ni ka adwaro timo gima ber, to apo ka rach bende ni koda.
I find then a law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is presented to me.
22 Nimar ei chunya maiye amor gi chik Nyasaye;
For I am delighted with the law of God, as respecting the inward man:
23 to aneno chik machielo katiyo e fuonde mag ringra makedo gi chik manie chunya, mamiyo abedo misumba Chik mar richo manie fuondena.
but I see another law in my members, militating against the law in my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 Mano kaka an ngʼama chandore! En ngʼa mabiro resa kuom ringruokni mar tho?
O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?
25 Erokamano ne Nyasaye kuom Yesu Kristo Ruodhwa! Kuom mano, an awuon gi ei pacha an misumba mar chik Nyasaye, to kuom kita mar richo, an misumba mar chik mar richo.
I give thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Well then, I myself with my mind am servant to the law of God; but in my flesh to the law of sin.
