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?
Tsy fantatrareo, va, ry rahalahy (fa miteny amin’ izay mahalala ny lalàna aho), fa ny lalàna dia manapaka ny olona, raha mbola velona izy?
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;
Fa ny vehivavy izay manambady dia fehezin’ ny lalàna ho an’ ny lahy, raha mbola velona ny lahy; fa raha maty kosa ny lahy, dia afaka amin’ ny lalàn’ ny lahy izy.
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.
Koa raha mbola velona ny lahy, ka manambady olon-kafa ravehivavy, dia hatao hoe mpijangajanga izy; fa raha maty kosa ny lahy, dia afaka amin’ izany lalàna izany izy ka tsy mba mpijangajanga, na dia manambady olon-kafa aza.
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;
Ary amin’ izany ianareo koa, ry rahalahiko, dia efa natao maty ny amin’ ny lalàna noho ny tenan’ i Kristy, mba ho vadin’ ny hafa ianareo, dia Izay natsangana tamin’ ny maty, mba hahavokarantsika ho an’ Andriamanitra.
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;
Fa fony tao amin’ ny nofo isika, dia ny filan’ ny ota, izay nohetsehin’ ny lalàna, no niasa tao amin’ ny momba ny tenantsika hahavokatra ho amin’ ny fahafatesana.
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.
Fa ankehitriny dia efa afaka tamin’ ny lalàna isika, satria maty ny amin’ izay nihazonana antsika, ka dia manompo amin’ ny havaozam-panahy isika, fa tsy amin’ ny hahelan-tsoratra.
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:
Inona ary no holazaintsika? Ota va ny lalàna? Sanatria izany! Kanefa tsy nahalala ny ota aho, raha tsy tamin’ ny lalàna, satria tsy fantatro akory ny fitsiriritana, raha tsy ny lalàna no nanao hoe: Aza mitsiriritra.
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.
Fa io didy io dia nentin’ ny ota nampihetsika ny fitsiriritana rehetra tato anatiko; fa maty ny ota, raha tsy misy lalàna.
9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, sin revived, and I died;
Ary izaho dia velona tsy nanan-dalàna fahiny; fa rehefa tonga kosa ny didy, dia velona indray ny ota, ka dia maty aho.
10 and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;
Ary ny didy izay natao hahazoana fiainana, dia hitako fa nahatonga fahafatesana tamiko kosa.
11 for sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, deceived me, and through it, slew [me],
Fa io didy io dia nentin’ ny ota namitaka sy nahafaty ahy.
12 so that the Law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
Ka dia masìna tokoa ny lalàna, ary masìna ny didy sady marina no tsara.
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.
Koa ny tsara va no nahafaty ahy? Sanatria izany! Fa ny ota no nahafaty ahy, mba hiseho ho ota; fa ny tsara no nentiny nahafaty ahy, mba ho tonga ota indrindra ny ota noho ny nataon’ ny lalàna.
14 For we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by sin;
Fa fantatsika fa araka ny fanahy ny lalàna; fa izaho kosa nofo, namidy ho andevon’ ny ota.
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.
Fa izay ataoko dia tsy fantatro; fa tsy izay sitrako no ataoko; fa izay halako no ataoko.
16 And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the Law that [it is] good,
Fa raha manao ny tsy sitrako aho, dia manaiky fa tsara ny lalàna.
17 and now it is no longer I that work it, but sin dwelling in me,
Ary amin’ izany tsy izaho intsony no manao izany, fa ny ota izay mitoetra ato anatiko.
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,
Fa fantatro fa tsy misy zavatra tsara mitoetra ato amiko, dia ato amin’ ny nofoko; fa ato anatiko ihany ny fikasana, saingy ny hahatanteraka ny tsara no tsy ato.
19 for the good that I will, I do not do; but the evil that I do not will, this I practice.
Fa tsy ny tsara izay sitrako no ataoko; fa ny ratsy izay tsy sitrako no ataoko.
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.
Fa raha ny tsy sitrako no ataoko, dia tsy izaho intsony no manao izany, fa ny ota izay mitoetra ato amiko.
21 I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, the evil is present with me,
Koa hitako izao lalàna izao: raha ta-hanao ny marina aho, dia ato amiko ihany ny ratsy.
22 for I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man,
Fa mankasitraka ny lalàn’ Andriamanitra aho araka ny toetra anaty;
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.
nefa mahita lalàna hafa amin’ ny momba ny tenako aho, miady amin’ ny lalàn’ ny saiko ka mamabo ahy ho an’ ny lalàn’ ny ota izay ao amin’ ny momba ny tenako.
24 A wretched man I [am]! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Indrisy! olo-mahantra aho! Iza no hanafaka ahy amin’ ny tenan’ ity fahafatesana ity?
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.
Misaotra an’ Andriamanitra aho amin’ ny alalan’ i Jesosy Kristy Tompontsika. Koa raha ny amiko, dia mankatò ny lalàn’ Andriamanitra aho amin’ ny saiko, fa ny lalàn’ ny ota kosa amin’ ny nofoko.
