Romans 7
1 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?
Nikuba bobo tamuzi na, nobakwesu ( nkambo ndokwambuula kubantu abo bazi mulawo), kuti mulawo ulatonga kumuntu kufumbwa chiindi nchapona?
2 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.
Nkambo mwanakazi ukwetwe ulangwa amulawu kumulumi chiindi napona, pesi kuti mwalumi wafwa, ulangununwa kuzwa kumulawo wakukwatwa.
3 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.
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.
4 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.
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.
5 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.
Nkambo nitwakali munyama, chiyandisyo chazibi, chibusigwa a mulawo, chakali a mulimo muziizo zyesu kukuzyala muchelo walufu.
6 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.
Pesi lino twakangununwa kuzwa kumulawu. Twakafwa kuli echo nchitwakangidwe. Echi chilibobu kuti tukabelekele mubupya bwa Muuya alimwi kutali mubukulukulu bwalugwalo.
7 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.”
Tulatyeni kabi? Mulawo imawo mubina? Kutabi bobo. Nikubabobo, tendali kunoziba chibi, nikwatanoli kwinda mumulawo. Nkambo ndanoli nkintazi ibbivwe kutali kuti mulawo wakamba, “Mutabi abbivwe.”
8 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Pesi chibi chakabweza mwenya mukwinda mumalayilile alimwi akweeta bbivwe mulindime. Kuti kakutakwe mulawo, chibi chilifwide.
9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
Kuli chimwi chiindi ndakali kupona katakwe mulawo, pesi elyo malayile nakasika, chibi chakajana lubo buumi, alimwi ndakafwa.
10 So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
Malayilile ayo akayelede kweta buumi akasanduka aba lufu lwangu.
11 For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
Nkambo chibi chakabweza mwenya kwindila mumalayilile alimwi akandena. Kwindila mumalayilile chakandijeya.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
Nkinkaako mulawo ulasalala, alimwi malayilile alasalala, bululami, alimwi bubotu.
13 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.
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.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
Nkambo tulizi kuti mulawo nguwa Muuya, pesi imebo ndimunyama. Ndakamuzigwa munsi abuzike kuchibi.
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
Ezyo nzindichita, tandizimvwisisisyi loko. nkambo nzinjanda kuchita, tandizichiti, alimwi ezyo nzizonda, ndachita.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
Pesi kuli ndachita nzitayandi, ndazuminana a mulawo kuti mulawo uliluleme.
17 In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
Pesi lino tokuchili ndime uzichita, pesi chibi echo chipona mulindime.
18 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.
Nkambo ndilizi kuti mulindime, echo chilimunyama, tamuponi chintu chabubotu pe. Nkambo chiyandisyo chabubotu buli mulandime, pesi tandikozichita pe.
19 For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
Ezyo zibotu zindiyanda, tandizichiti, pesi ikuti mbuntayandi mbunchinta.
20 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.
Lino kuti ndachita nzintayandi kuchita, abobo takuchili ndime ulokuchita, pesi biyo chibi chikkala mulindime.
21 So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
Elyo, ndijana mulawu oyu, amo mpundiyanda kuchita kabotu, chibi mpuchili andime.
22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
Nkambo ndilakondwa mumulawo wa Leza amumuntu wangu wamukati.
23 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.
Pesi ndibona busiyene mulawo mumuzizo zyangu. Ulwisyanya a mulawo mupya mumiyeeyo yangu. Zindibweza ndibe muzike wamulawo muchibi muzizo zyangu.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Ndilimuntu umuside! Ngwani ulondinunula kuzwa kumubili wa lufu?
25 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.
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.
