Romans 7
1 Are you ignorant, brothers—for to those knowing law I speak—that the law has lordship over the man as long as he lives?
Bandeko—nazali koloba na bato oyo bayebi Mobeko— bobosani ete Mobeko ezalaka na nguya likolo ya moto kaka na tango oyo azali na bomoi?
2 For the married woman to the living husband has been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she has been free from the law of the husband;
Ndakisa: Mobeko ekangisaka mwasi ya libala na mobali na ye, wana mobali yango azali na bomoi. Kasi soki mobali akufi, mwasi akangolami na mobeko oyo ezalaki kokangisa ye na mobali.
3 so then, the husband being alive, she will be called an adulteress if she may become another man’s; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man’s.
Boye soki, wana mobali na ye azali nanu na bomoi, akomi mwasi ya mobali mosusu, bakoloba ete asali ekobo. Kasi soki mobali na ye akufi, akangolami libela na mobeko yango mpe akoki kokoma mwasi ya mobali mosusu; boye bakoloba te ete asali ekobo.
4 So that, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another’s, who was raised up out of the dead, that we might bear fruit to God;
Ndenge wana mpe mpo na bino bandeko na ngai: bosila mpe kokufa mpo na Mobeko na nzela ya nzoto ya Klisto mpo ete bokoma bato ya moto mosusu, ya Ye oyo asekwaki kati na bakufi, mpo ete tobota bambuma mpo na Nzambe.
5 for when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, that [are] through the Law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to death;
Pamba te wana tozalaki nanu kotambola kolanda baposa ya nzoto, Mobeko ezalaki kotindika biso na baposa ya mabe oyo ezalaki kosala mosala na yango kati na biteni ya banzoto na biso mpo ete tobota bambuma oyo ememaka na kufa.
6 and now we have ceased from the Law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
Kasi sik’oyo, lokola tokufi mpo na nguya oyo ezalaki kokanga biso na bowumbu, tokangolami na nguya ya Mobeko mpo ete tosalela Nzambe na lolenge ya sika ya Molimo, kasi na lolenge ya kala ya mokanda ya Mobeko te.
7 What, then, will we say? The Law [is] sin? Let it not be! But I did not know sin except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the Law had not said:
Boye toloba nini? Mobeko ekomi nde lisumu? Soki moke te! Soki Mobeko ezalaki te, nalingaki mpe koyeba lisumu te. Pamba te soki Mobeko elobaki te: « Okolulaka te, » nalingaki mpe koyeba te soki kolula ezali penza nini.
8 “You will not covet”; and sin having received an opportunity, through the command, worked in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead.
Nzokande, lokola lisumu ezwaka nguya na esika oyo mitindo ezali, lisumu ebotaki kati na ngai lolenge nyonso ya baposa ya mabe. Pamba te soki Mobeko ezali te, lisumu mpe ezali na nguya te.
9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, sin revived, and I died;
Na kala, tango Mobeko ezalaki te, nazalaki na bomoi; kasi tango mitindo eyei, lisumu mpe ezwi nguya, mpe ngai nakufi.
10 and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;
Bongo mitindo oyo esengelaki komema na bomoi ememi ngai na kufa.
11 for sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, deceived me, and through it, slew [me],
Pamba te lokola lisumu ezwaka nguya na esika oyo mitindo ezali, lisumu ekosaki ngai mpe ememaki ngai na kufa na nzela ya mitindo.
12 so that the Law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
Boye, Mobeko ezali bule, mpe mitindo ezali bule, sembo mpe malamu.
13 That which is good then, has it become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the command.
Boni, eloko ya malamu ekoki solo komemela ngai kufa? Soki moke te! Nzokande, mpo ete lisumu eyebana ete ezali lisumu, mpe mpo ete elakisa mabe na yango na nzela ya mitindo, esalelaki eloko oyo ezali malamu mpo ete lisumu yango epesa ngai kufa.
14 For we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by sin;
Toyebi ete Mobeko epesamaki na nzela ya Molimo na Nzambe; kasi ngai nazali kaka moto, natekama mpo na kozala mowumbu ya lisumu.
15 for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practice, but what I hate, this I do.
Nasosolaka te makambo oyo nasalaka: oyo nalingaka kosala, nasalaka yango te; kasi oyo nayinaka, yango nde nasalaka.
16 And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the Law that [it is] good,
Mpe soki nasalaka makambo oyo naboyaka kosala, wana nandimi ete Mobeko ezali malamu.
17 and now it is no longer I that work it, but sin dwelling in me,
Lokola ezali bongo, emonani ete ezali ngai te moto nasalaka yango, kasi ezali nde lisumu oyo evandaka kati na ngai.
18 for I have known that there does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and I do not find to work that which is right,
Pamba te nayebi malamu ete bolamu evandaka kati na ngai te, elingi koloba: evandaka kati na nzoto na ngai te. Nazalaka na posa ya kosala bolamu, kasi nazangaka nguya ya kokokisa yango.
19 for the good that I will, I do not do; but the evil that I do not will, this I practice.
Nasalaka te bolamu oyo nalingaka kosala, kasi nasalaka nde mabe oyo naboyaka kosala.
20 And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but sin that is dwelling in me.
Soki sik’oyo nasali makambo oyo naboyaka kosala, ezali lisusu ngai te moto nasali yango, kasi ezali nde lisumu oyo evandaka kati na ngai.
21 I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, the evil is present with me,
Boye, namonaka mobeko oyo kosala kati na ngai: soki nalingi kosala bolamu, ezali mabe kaka nde nakosala.
22 for I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man,
Pamba te kati na motema na ngai, nasepelaka na Mobeko ya Nzambe;
23 and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin that [is] in my members.
kasi kati na biteni ya nzoto na ngai, namonaka mobeko mosusu kobundisa mobeko ya makanisi ya motema na ngai mpe kokomisa ngai mowumbu ya mobeko ya lisumu oyo ezali kosala kati na biteni ya nzoto na ngai.
24 A wretched man I [am]! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Oh ngai moto na mawa! Nani akokangola ngai na nzoto oyo ya kufa?
25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed serve the Law of God with the mind, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
Tika ete matondi epesamela Nzambe oyo akangolaka ngai na nzela ya Yesu-Klisto, Nkolo na biso! Na mokuse, nakoki koloba ete, na nzela ya mayele na ngai, nazali mowumbu ya Mobeko ya Nzambe, kasi na nzela ya bomoto na ngai ya masumu, nazali mowumbu ya mobeko ya lisumu.
