Romans 7
1 Or do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a person for as long as he lives?
Frè m' yo, mwen sèten nou konnen sa m' pral di nou la a deja, paske nou konn lalwa a: Se toutotan yon moun ap viv lalwa gen pouvwa sou li.
2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
M'ap pran yon egzanp: yon madan marye gen angajman avèk mari l' devan lalwa toutotan mari a vivan. Men, si mari a mouri, madanm lan lib devan lalwa annegad mari a.
3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she is called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
Si pandan mari a vivan toujou, madanm lan vin fanm yon lòt gason, y'ap rele madanm lan adiltè. Men, si mari a mouri, li lib devan lalwa. Lè sa a, si l' vin fanm yon lòt gason, li pa yon adiltè.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we may bear fruit to God.
Se menm jan an tou pou nou menm, frè m' yo. Nou mouri ansanm ak kò Kris la annegad lalwa. Konsa, nou lib pase nan men yon lòt mèt. Koulye a, se nan men moun ki te leve soti vivan nan lanmò a nou ye pou nou ka viv yon jan ki itil pou Bondye.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit for death.
Lè n' t'ap viv anba pouvwa lachè, tout vye dezi lalwa te fè leve nan kè nou yo t'ap travay nan tout kò nou, yo te fè nou fè bagay ki t'ap mennen nou nan lanmò.
6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Koulye a, nou pa gen angajman ak lalwa ankò. Nou mouri annegad lalwa ki te kenbe nou prizonye a. Se sak fè nou ka sèvi Bondye yon lòt jan, anba otorite Sentespri a. Nou p'ap sèvi l' ankò jan n' te konn sèvi l' nan tan lontan an, anba otorite lalwa ki ekri nan Liv la.
7 What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness, unless the law had said, "Do not covet."
Nan kondisyon sa a, kisa n'a di? Eske lalwa se peche? Non, wete sa nan tèt ou. Men, se lalwa a ki fè m' konnen sa peche ye. Se konsa mwen pa ta janm konnen kisa ki rele gen lanvi, si lalwa pa t' di m': Piga ou janm pote lanvi sou sak pa pou nou.
8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Peche a pwofite okazyon kòmandman an pou l' fè m' gen tout kalite lanvi nan kè mwen. San lalwa a, peche mouri.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died.
Pou mwen menm, nan tan lontan, lè m' te san lalwa, mwen te vivan. Men, lè kòmandman an vin rive, peche a vin vivan ankò.
10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Epi mwen menm, mwen mouri. Se konsa kòmandman ki te pou ban m' lavi a, se li menm ki ban m' lanmò.
11 for sin, taking the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Peche a pwofite okazyon an, li twonpe m' ak kòmandman an. Se konsa, li fè mwen mouri ak tout kòmandman an.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Men, lalwa a se yon bagay ki soti nan Bondye. Kòmandman an tou, se Bondye ki bay li, se konsa li dwat epi li bon.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
Eske nou ka di sa ki bon an tounen yon kòz lanmò pou nou? Non, monchè! Men, se peche ki lakòz sa. Peche fè nou wè sa li menm li ye vre: li sèvi ak sa ki bon an pou l' fè mwen mouri. Se konsa, avèk kòmandman an, peche a kanpe pi rèd toujou.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Nou konnen lalwa li menm, se yon bagay ki soti nan Lespri Bondye. Men, mwen menm, mwen se yon kò ki tou fèb, peche fin anpare m', li fè m' tounen esklav li.
15 For I do not know what I am doing. For I do not practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
Lè m' fè yon bagay, mwen pa konprann sa m' fè a. Paske, sa m' ta vle fè a, se pa sa m' fè. Epi sa m' pa vle fè a, se li mwen fè.
16 But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
Si sa m' pa t' vle fè a se li mwen fè, sa vle di mwen dakò lalwa a bon.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Nan kondisyon sa a, se pa mwen ki fè sa ki fèt la, men se peche ki nan mwen an ki fè li.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For the desire is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
Sa se bagay mwen konnen: Nanpwen anyen ki bon nan mwen, nan tout kò mwen. Mwen di sa, paske menm lè mwen vle fè sa ki byen, mwen pa santi m' kapab fè li.
19 For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.
Mwen pa fè byen mwen vle fè a, men mwen fè mal mwen pa vle fè a.
20 But if what I do not desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Epi, si m' fè mal mwen pa vle fè a, se pa mwen ki fè l', men se peche ki nan mwen an ki fè li.
21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Pou mwen menm, mwen jwenn lwa sa a nan mwen: lè m' vle fè sa ki byen, se sa ki mal ase mwen santi m' ka fè.
22 For I delight in God's law in my inner being,
Nan fon kè m', mwen jwenn tout plezi m' nan lalwa Bondye a.
23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
Men, nan tout kò m', mwen santi yon lòt lwa k'ap goumen ak lalwa mwen renmen an. Lwa sa a kenbe m' prizonye anba otorite peche a ki nan tout kò mwen.
24 What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Ala malere mwen malere, mezanmi! Kilès ki va delivre m' anba kò sa a k'ap trennen m' nan lanmò?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
Gremesi Jezikri, Seyè nou an, mwen ka di: Mèsi Bondye! Konsa, men ki jan mwen ye: dapre konesans pa mwen, mwen se esklav lalwa Bondye a. Men, dapre sa m' santi nan tout kò mwen, mwen se esklav lalwa peche a.
