Romans 7
1 Know you not, brothers, (for I speak to them that know the law, ) how that the law has dominion over a man 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 the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Nkambo mwanakazi ukwetwe ulangwa amulawu kumulumi chiindi napona, pesi kuti mwalumi wafwa, ulangununwa kuzwa kumulawo wakukwatwa.
3 So then if, while her husband lives, 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.
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 Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth 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 were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Nkambo nitwakali munyama, chiyandisyo chazibi, chibusigwa a mulawo, chakali a mulimo muziizo zyesu kukuzyala muchelo walufu.
6 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.
Pesi lino twakangununwa kuzwa kumulawu. Twakafwa kuli echo nchitwakangidwe. Echi chilibobu kuti tukabelekele mubupya bwa Muuya alimwi kutali mubukulukulu bwalugwalo.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall 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, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Pesi chibi chakabweza mwenya mukwinda mumalayilile alimwi akweeta bbivwe mulindime. Kuti kakutakwe mulawo, chibi chilifwide.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Kuli chimwi chiindi ndakali kupona katakwe mulawo, pesi elyo malayile nakasika, chibi chakajana lubo buumi, alimwi ndakafwa.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death.
Malayilile ayo akayelede kweta buumi akasanduka aba lufu lwangu.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Nkambo chibi chakabweza mwenya kwindila mumalayilile alimwi akandena. Kwindila mumalayilile chakandijeya.
12 Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Nkinkaako mulawo ulasalala, alimwi malayilile alasalala, bululami, alimwi bubotu.
13 Was then that which is good made death to 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.
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 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Nkambo tulizi kuti mulawo nguwa Muuya, pesi imebo ndimunyama. Ndakamuzigwa munsi abuzike kuchibi.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Ezyo nzindichita, tandizimvwisisisyi loko. nkambo nzinjanda kuchita, tandizichiti, alimwi ezyo nzizonda, ndachita.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good.
Pesi kuli ndachita nzitayandi, ndazuminana a mulawo kuti mulawo uliluleme.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Pesi lino tokuchili ndime uzichita, pesi chibi echo chipona mulindime.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh, ) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Nkambo ndilizi kuti mulindime, echo chilimunyama, tamuponi chintu chabubotu pe. Nkambo chiyandisyo chabubotu buli mulandime, pesi tandikozichita pe.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Ezyo zibotu zindiyanda, tandizichiti, pesi ikuti mbuntayandi mbunchinta.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Lino kuti ndachita nzintayandi kuchita, abobo takuchili ndime ulokuchita, pesi biyo chibi chikkala mulindime.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Elyo, ndijana mulawu oyu, amo mpundiyanda kuchita kabotu, chibi mpuchili andime.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Nkambo ndilakondwa mumulawo wa Leza amumuntu wangu wamukati.
23 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.
Pesi ndibona busiyene mulawo mumuzizo zyangu. Ulwisyanya a mulawo mupya mumiyeeyo yangu. Zindibweza ndibe muzike wamulawo muchibi muzizo zyangu.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Ndilimuntu umuside! Ngwani ulondinunula kuzwa kumubili wa lufu?
25 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.
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.
