Romans 7
1 Brothers and sisters, (I'm speaking here to people who know the law), don't you see that the law has authority over someone only while they're alive?
Ta ishato, taani odey higge eriya asatassa. Higgey issi asi paxa de7iya wode ubban iya haarees.
2 For example, a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he's alive, but if he dies, she's released from this legal obligation to him.
Leemisos, azina gelida maccasiya I azinay paxa de7iya wode higgen iyara qashettasu. Shin I azinay hayqqiko iyara iya caaqqida caaqoy iyo haarenna.
3 So if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery. However, if her husband dies and then she marries another man, she wouldn't be guilty of adultery.
Hessa gisho, iya ba azinay paxa de7ishin, hara adde gelikko, iya laammidaaro geetettawusu. Shin I azinay hayqqiko, caaqoy iyo haaronna gisho iya hara azina gelikko, iya laammidaaro geetettuku.
4 In the same way, my friends, you've become dead to the law through the body of Christ, and so now you belong to someone else—Christ, who was raised from the dead so that we could live a productive life for God.
Hessa gisho, ta ishato, hintte Kiristtoosa asatethaa baggara higge wolqqaas hayqqidi, Xoossaas ayfe ayfanaw hayqoppe denddida Kiristtoosas gidideta.
5 While we were controlled by old nature, our sinful desires (as revealed by the law) were at work within us and resulted in death.
Nu asho amoy nuna haarin, nu de7iya wode higgey gujji nagara oothana mela nuna denthethees. Nu asatethaa giddon iita amotethi de7iya gisho nuuni hayqo ayfe ayfana mela oothis.
6 But now we've been set free from the law, and have died to what kept us in chains, so that we can serve in the newness of the spirit and not the old letter of the law.
Shin ha77i nuuni nuna qachchida higgiyas hayqqida gisho nuuni higge qashoppe bilettida. Hessa gisho, Geeshsha Ayyaana ogen Xoossaas kiitettosippe attin xaafettida cima higgiyas kiitettoko.
7 So what do we conclude? That the law is sin? Of course not! I wouldn't have known what sin was unless the law defined it. I wouldn't have realized that wanting to have other people's things for myself was wrong without the law that says, “Don't desire for yourself what belongs to someone else.”
Yaatin, nuuni woyganee? Higgey ba huu7en nagaree? Gidenna! Shin higgey nagari aybeekko tana erisis. Higgey, “Amottofa” goonnako, amotethi aybeekko taani erikke.
8 But through this commandment sin found a way to stir up in me all kinds of selfish desires—for without law, sin is dead.
Shin ta ubbabaa amottana mela nagari higge baggara tanan oge demmis. Higgey bayneekko nagari hayqqidayssa.
9 I used to live without realizing what the law really meant, but when I understood the implications of that commandment, then sin came back to life, and I died.
Kase higgey baynna wode ta paxa, shin higgey imettida wode nagari paxin ta qassi hayqqas.
10 I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life brought death instead,
Taani de7on daana mela Xoossay immida higgey taw hayqo ehis.
11 because sin found a way through the commandment to deceive me, and used the commandment to kill me!
Nagari higge baggara tana cimmiya ogiya demmidi wodhdhis.
12 However, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good.
Hessa gisho, higgey geeshshi; iyan xaafettida kiitaykka geeshshi, xillonne lo77o.
13 Now would something that is good kill me? Of course not! But sin shows itself to be sin by using good to cause my death. So by means of the commandment, it's revealed how evil sin really is.
Yaatin, lo77o gididabay ta bolla hayqo ehideyye? Gidenna! Shin nagari nagara gideyssi qonccana mela lo77oban maaddettidi taw hayqo ehis. Hessa gisho, nagara nagaratethay higge baggara aadhdhidi erettis.
14 We realize that the law is spiritual; but I'm all-too-human, a slave to sin.
Nuuni higgey ayyaanabaa gideyssa eroos. Shin taani nagaras bayzettida asho asi.
15 I really don't understand what I'm doing. I do the things I don't want to do, and what I hate doing, that's what I do!
Taani oothiyabaa akeekikke; taani dosiyabaa oothanayssa aggada ta ixxiyabaa oothays.
16 But if I'm saying that I do what I don't want to, this shows that I admit the law is good and right.
Taani ixxiyabaa oothiyabaa gidikko, higgey lo77o gideyssa ta ma77ays.
17 So it's no longer me who does this, but sin living in me—
Hessa gidikko, he oosuwa tanan de7iya nagaray oothaysippe attin ta oothike.
18 for I know that there's nothing good in me as far as my sinful human nature is concerned. Even though I want to do good, I'm just not able to do it.
Tanan, hessika ta ashuwan lo77obay baynnayssa erays. Lo77obaa oothiya amotethi tanan de7ees, shin lo77obaa oothanaw dandda7ikke.
19 The good I want to do, I don't do; while the evil I don't want to do, that's what I end up doing!
Taani ixxiya iitabaa oothaysippe attin ta dosiya lo77obaa oothike.
20 However, if I'm doing what I don't want to, then it's no longer me doing it, but sin living in me.
Taani ixxiyabaa oothiyabaa gidikko, hessa tanan de7iya nagaray ootheesippe attin oothey tana gidikke.
21 This is the principle I've discovered: if I want to do what's good, evil is always there too.
Hiza, ta lo77obaa oothanaw dosishin, iitabaa oosoy woga gideyssa demmas.
22 My inner self is delighted with God's law,
Taani ta wozanan Xoossaa higgiyan ufayttays.
23 but I see a different law at work within me that is at war with the law my mind has decided to follow, making me a prisoner of the law of sin that is within me.
Shin ta asatethaa giddon de7iya ta qofaa higgiyara olettiya dumma higge be7ays. He higgey ta asatethaa giddon oothiya nagara higgiyas tana aylle oothidi immis.
24 I'm totally miserable! Who will rescue me from this body that's causing my death? Thank God—for he does this through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Taani waanida yibbata asee? Hayqos efiya ha asatethaafe tana ashshanay oonee?
25 Here's the situation: while I myself choose with my mind to obey God's law, my human nature obeys the law of sin.
Nu Godaa Yesuus Kiristtoosa baggara tana ashshiya Xoossaas galatay gido. Hiza, taani ta qofan Xoossaa higgiyas haarettays; shin ta asatethan tana nagara oosisiya higgiyas haarettays.
