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?
Me nuanom, munim sɛ esiane sɛ mo nyinaa nim mmara no nti, mote nea mepɛ sɛ meka no ase sɛ; mmere dodow a onipa te ase no, mmara di ne so ana?
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;
Te sɛ ɔbea warefo, mmere dodow a okunu no te ase no de, ɔhyɛ ne kunu mmara ase, na sɛ okunu no wu de a, na ɔnhyɛ ne kunu mmara ase bio.
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.
Ɛno nti sɛ ɔkɔ ɔbarima foforo ho wɔ bere a ne kunu te ase a, wɔfrɛ no ɔwaresɛefo; na sɛ ne kunu no wu a na ɔnhyɛ saa mmara no ase bio; ɛno nti sɛ ɔware ɔbarima foforo a, ɔnyɛ ɔwaresɛefo.
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;
Afei me nuanom, mo nso, Kristo wu a owui nti moawu afi mmara no tumi ase. Ne saa nti, mone ɔno a wonyan no fii awufo mu abom sɛnea mobetumi asom Onyankopɔn.
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;
Bere a na yɛte ase ma yɛn ho no, yɛn bɔne su nam mmara no so kanyan yɛn wɔ yɛn mu ma yɛyɛɛ adwuma maa owu.
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.
Afei de, yɛnhyɛ mmara biara ase efisɛ yewu fii nea ɛkyekyeree yɛn sɛ nneduafo no ase. Afei de, yɛnhyɛ mmara biara a wɔakyerɛw no dedaw ase bio, na mmom yɛnam honhom foforo kwan so na ɛsom.
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:
Enti asɛm bɛn na yɛnka? Mmara no yɛ bɔne ana? Dabi da! Mmom, ɛnam mmara so na mihuu sɛnea bɔne te. Sɛ ɛnyɛ mmara no na ɛkaa sɛ, “Mma wʼani mmere obi ade” a, anka minnim anibere.
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.
Bɔne nyaa kwan nam mmara nsɛm no so kekaa ne ho wɔ me mu, maa mʼani beree nneɛma ahorow bebree. Sɛ mmara no nni hɔ a, bɔne nso nni tumi.
9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, sin revived, and I died;
Ansa na mehu mmara no na mewɔ nkwa. Nanso mmaransɛm no bae no, metee bɔne ase, na miwui.
10 and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;
Mihuu sɛ mmaransɛm a anka ɛde nkwa bɛba no, de owu bae.
11 for sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, deceived me, and through it, slew [me],
Bɔne nam mmaransɛm no so nyaa kwan daadaa me; ɛnam mmaransɛm no so maa bɔne kum me.
12 so that the Law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
Nanso mmara no yɛ kronkron; na Mmaransɛm no nso yɛ kronkron, ɛteɛ na eye nso.
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.
Ade a eye no bɛyɛɛ owu maa me ana? Dabi da! Nanso sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a yebehu bɔne sɛ bɔne no, ɛfaa nea eye so de owu brɛɛ me. Enti bɔne nam mmaransɛm so maa me huu sɛ bɔne yɛ ade a ɛyɛ hu.
14 For we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by sin;
Yenim sɛ mmara no yɛ honhom mu ade nanso meyɛ ɔhonam muni a wɔatɔn me sɛ akoa ama bɔne.
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.
Mente nea meyɛ ase; efisɛ menyɛ nea ɛsɛ sɛ meyɛ na mmom, meyɛ nea mikyi.
16 And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the Law that [it is] good,
Sɛ meyɛ nea mempɛ sɛ meyɛ a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ mepene so sɛ mmara no ye.
17 and now it is no longer I that work it, but sin dwelling in me,
Sɛnea ɛte no, ɛnyɛ mʼankasa na meyɛ eyi; na mmom bɔne a ɛte me mu no.
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,
Minim sɛ ade pa biara nte me mu, me bɔne nipasu yi mu. Efisɛ mepɛ sɛ meyɛ nea eye nanso mintumi nyɛ.
19 for the good that I will, I do not do; but the evil that I do not will, this I practice.
Papa a mepɛ sɛ meyɛ no, menyɛ; mmom bɔne a mempɛ sɛ meyɛ no na meyɛ.
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.
Sɛ meyɛ nea mempɛ sɛ meyɛ a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ ɛnyɛ me na meyɛe, na mmom ɛyɛ bɔne a ɛte me mu no.
21 I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, the evil is present with me,
Mmara no ama mahu sɛ biribi te me mu a ɛmma mennyɛ nea minim sɛ eye.
22 for I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man,
Me koma nyinaa mu, migye Onyankopɔn mmara to mu.
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.
Nanso mifi mʼakwaa nyinaa mu hu sɛ biribi ne mʼadwene di aperepere, ɛma meyɛ bɔne akoa, na ɛno na ɛhyɛ me ma meyɛ biribiara.
24 A wretched man I [am]! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Minni ahotɔ! Hena na obegye me afi saa ɔhonam a ɛde me rekɔ owu mu yi mu?
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.
Menam yɛn Awurade Yesu Kristo so meda Onyankopɔn ase. Na afei mʼankasa mʼadwene mu no, meyɛ akoa ma Onyankopɔn mmara, nanso bɔne nipasu mu no, meyɛ akoa ma bɔne.
