Romans 6
1 What, then, will we say? Will we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Ngakho sizakuthini? Sizahlala yini esonweni, ukuze kwande umusa?
2 Let it not be! We who died to sin—how will we still live in it?
Phinde! Thina esafa mayelana lesono, sizaphila njani kuso futhi?
3 Are you ignorant that we, as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus, were immersed into His death?
Kalazi yini ukuthi thina sonke esabhabhathizelwa kuKristu Jesu, sabhabhathizelwa ekufeni kwakhe?
4 We were buried together, then, with Him through the immersion into death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Ngakho sangcwatshwa kanye laye ngobhabhathizo ekufeni; ukuze, njengoba uKristu wavuswa kwabafileyo ngobukhosi bukaYise, ngokunjalo lathi sihambe ebutsheni bempilo.
5 For if we have become planted together to the likeness of His death, [so] we also will be of the resurrection;
Ngoba uba sihlanyelwe kanye laye ekufananeni kokufa kwakhe, sizakuba njalo lekufananeni kokuvuka kwakhe;
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [Him], that the body of sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving sin,
sisazi lokhu, ukuthi umuntu wethu omdala ubethelwe laye, ukuze umzimba wesono ubhujiswe, ukuze singabe sisakhonza isono;
7 for he who has died has been set free from sin.
ngoba ofileyo ukhululiwe esonweni.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also will live with Him,
Njalo uba sifile kanye loKristu, siyakholwa ukuthi sizaphila futhi kanye laye;
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, dies no more; death has no more lordship over Him;
sisazi ukuthi uKristu esevusiwe kwabafileyo kasafi futhi; ukufa kungeke kusabusa phezu kwakhe.
10 for in that He died, He died to sin once, and in that He lives, He lives to God;
Ngoba lokhu wafa, wafela isono kanye; kodwa lokhu ephila, uphilela uNkulunkulu.
11 so also you, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ngokunjalo lani zinakaneni sibili lifile esonweni, kodwa liphilele uNkulunkulu ngoKristu Jesu iNkosi yethu.
12 Do not let then sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;
Ngakho kakumelanga isono sibuse emzimbeni wenu ofayo, lize lisilalele ezinkanukweni zawo;
13 neither present your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
njalo linganikeli izitho zenu zibe yizikhali zokungalungi esonweni; kodwa zinikeleni lina kuNkulunkulu njengabaphilayo kwabafileyo, lezitho zenu kuNkulunkulu zibe yizikhali zokulunga;
14 for sin will not have lordship over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
ngoba isono kasiyikubusa phezu kwenu; ngoba kalikho ngaphansi komlayo, kodwa ngaphansi komusa.
15 What then? Will we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be!
Pho-ke? Sizakona yini, ngoba singekho ngaphansi komlayo, kodwa ngaphansi komusa? Phinde!
16 Have you not known that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, servants you are to him to whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Kalazi yini ukuthi lowo elizinikela kuye ukuze libe yizigqili zokumlalela, liyizigqili zakhe elimlalelayo, loba ezesono kube yikufa, loba ezokulalela kube yikulunga?
17 And thanks to God, that you were servants of sin, and—were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were delivered up;
Kodwa kabongwe uNkulunkulu, ukuthi lina lake laba yizigqili zesono, kodwa selilalela enhliziyweni isimo semfundiso elanikelwa kuso;
18 and having been freed from sin, you became servants to righteousness.
njalo likhululiwe esonweni, lenziwe izigqili zokulunga.
19 I speak in a human [way], because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as you presented your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness—to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to righteousness—to sanctification,
Ngikhuluma ngokwabantu ngenxa yobuthakathaka benyama yenu; ngoba njengalokho lanikela izitho zenu njengezigqili zamanyala lokubi kube ngokubi, ngokunjalo zinikeleni izitho zenu khathesi njengezigqili zokulunga, kube yibungcwele.
20 for when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
Ngoba lapho liyizigqili zesono, lalikhululekile ekulungeni.
21 What fruit, therefore, were you having then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [is] death.
Ngakho sithelobani elilaso ezintweni ngalesosikhathi eselilenhloni ngazo? Ngoba ukucina kwalezizinto yikufa.
22 And now, having been freed from sin, and having become servants to God, you have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end continuous life; (aiōnios g166)
Kodwa khathesi-ke selikhululiwe esonweni, njalo selenziwe izigqili kuNkulunkulu, lilesithelo senu kube yibungcwele, lokucina kuyimpilo elaphakade. (aiōnios g166)
