Ba Loma 7
1 Nikuba bobo tamuzi na, nobakwesu ( nkambo ndokwambuula kubantu abo bazi mulawo), kuti mulawo ulatonga kumuntu kufumbwa chiindi nchapona?
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law, ) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 Nkambo mwanakazi ukwetwe ulangwa amulawu kumulumi chiindi napona, pesi kuti mwalumi wafwa, ulangununwa kuzwa kumulawo wakukwatwa.
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
3 Alubo, chindi mwalumi wakwe nachipona, kuti wakukwatwa awumbi mwalumi, uyowambwa kuti ngusimamambe. Pesi kuti mwalumi wakwe wafwa, wangunuka kuzwa kumulawo, alubo tanoli simamambe pe, kuti wakwatwa awumbi mwalumi.
So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Nkiinkako, nobakwesu, mwakachitwa alimwi mwakafwa kumulawo kwinda mumubili wa Kkilisito. Ezi zilobo kuti mukaswanizigwe kuli umbi, nkukuti kuli oyo wakabusigwa kuzwa kubafu, kuchitila kuti tube amuchelo wa Leza.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 Nkambo nitwakali munyama, chiyandisyo chazibi, chibusigwa a mulawo, chakali a mulimo muziizo zyesu kukuzyala muchelo walufu.
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 Pesi lino twakangununwa kuzwa kumulawu. Twakafwa kuli echo nchitwakangidwe. Echi chilibobu kuti tukabelekele mubupya bwa Muuya alimwi kutali mubukulukulu bwalugwalo.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
7 Tulatyeni kabi? Mulawo imawo mubina? Kutabi bobo. Nikubabobo, tendali kunoziba chibi, nikwatanoli kwinda mumulawo. Nkambo ndanoli nkintazi ibbivwe kutali kuti mulawo wakamba, “Mutabi abbivwe.”
What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 Pesi chibi chakabweza mwenya mukwinda mumalayilile alimwi akweeta bbivwe mulindime. Kuti kakutakwe mulawo, chibi chilifwide.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
9 Kuli chimwi chiindi ndakali kupona katakwe mulawo, pesi elyo malayile nakasika, chibi chakajana lubo buumi, alimwi ndakafwa.
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 Malayilile ayo akayelede kweta buumi akasanduka aba lufu lwangu.
And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
11 Nkambo chibi chakabweza mwenya kwindila mumalayilile alimwi akandena. Kwindila mumalayilile chakandijeya.
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
12 Nkinkaako mulawo ulasalala, alimwi malayilile alasalala, bululami, alimwi bubotu.
Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Nkinkako ezyo zibotu zyakabotu lufu na kulindime? Kutabi boobo. Pesi chibi, kuchitila kuti chikatondezegwe kuba chibi, chakazyala lufu muli ndime kwindila achecho chakali chibotu, alimwi kwindila amalayilile chibi chibe chibi loko kwinda mmwelo.
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 Nkambo tulizi kuti mulawo nguwa Muuya, pesi imebo ndimunyama. Ndakamuzigwa munsi abuzike kuchibi.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 Ezyo nzindichita, tandizimvwisisisyi loko. nkambo nzinjanda kuchita, tandizichiti, alimwi ezyo nzizonda, ndachita.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 Pesi kuli ndachita nzitayandi, ndazuminana a mulawo kuti mulawo uliluleme.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.
17 Pesi lino tokuchili ndime uzichita, pesi chibi echo chipona mulindime.
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 Nkambo ndilizi kuti mulindime, echo chilimunyama, tamuponi chintu chabubotu pe. Nkambo chiyandisyo chabubotu buli mulandime, pesi tandikozichita pe.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh, ) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.
19 Ezyo zibotu zindiyanda, tandizichiti, pesi ikuti mbuntayandi mbunchinta.
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Lino kuti ndachita nzintayandi kuchita, abobo takuchili ndime ulokuchita, pesi biyo chibi chikkala mulindime.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 Elyo, ndijana mulawu oyu, amo mpundiyanda kuchita kabotu, chibi mpuchili andime.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 Nkambo ndilakondwa mumulawo wa Leza amumuntu wangu wamukati.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 Pesi ndibona busiyene mulawo mumuzizo zyangu. Ulwisyanya a mulawo mupya mumiyeeyo yangu. Zindibweza ndibe muzike wamulawo muchibi muzizo zyangu.
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 Ndilimuntu umuside! Ngwani ulondinunula kuzwa kumubili wa lufu?
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 Pesi kulumba ngakube kuli Leza kwinda muli Jesu Kkilisito Mwami wesu! Nkinkako, ime lwangu mbelekela mulawu wa Leza amwi a miyeyo yangu. Nikuba bobo, anyama yangu ndibelekela mulawo wachibi.
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
