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?
Ọ bụ na unu amaghị ụmụnna m, unu ndị maara iwu nke ọma na ọ bụ oge mmadụ dị ndụ ka iwu na-ejide ya?
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.
Dịka ihe ịmaatụ, iwu na-ejikọta nwanyị lụrụ di na di ya mgbe di ya ka nọ ndụ, ma ọ bụrụ na di nwanyị ahụ anwụọ, ọ nọkwaghị nʼokpuru iwu jikọtara ha dịka di na nwunye.
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.
A ga-akpọ ya nwanyị na-akwa iko ma ọ bụrụ na ọ lakwuru nwoke ọzọ mgbe di ya ka dị ndụ. Ma ọ bụrụ na di ya anwụọ, ọ ga-abụ onye nwere onwe ya site nʼiwu ahụ. Ọ kwaghị iko ma ọ bụrụ na ọ lụọ nwoke ọzọ.
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.
Ya mere, ụmụnna m, unu onwe unu kwa anwụọla nʼebe iwu dị site nʼahụ Kraịst, ka e nwe ike kenye unu onye ọzọ, bụ onye ahụ e mere ka o si nʼọnwụ bilie. Ka anyị site na ya mịa mkpụrụ nye Chineke.
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.
Mgbe anụ ahụ mmehie na-achị anyị, ọchịchọ ọjọọ nke iwu na-akpali jupụtara nʼime anyị, nke mere na anyị na-amị mkpụrụ nye ọnwụ.
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.
Ugbu a, a tọghapụla anyị pụọ nʼaka iwu ebe anyị nwụrụ nye ihe ndị kere anyị agbụ na mbụ, anyị anaghị ebikwa ndụ nʼusoro iwu ochie nke e dere nʼakwụkwọ, kama anyị na-eje ozi nʼusoro ndụ ọhụrụ nke mmụọ.
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."
Ugbu a, gịnị ka anyị ga-ekwu? Iwu ahụ ọ bụ mmehie? Nʼezie, mbaa! Agaraghị m ama ihe mmehie bụ ma ọ bụghị site nʼiwu. Ọ bụrụ na iwu asịghị, “Enwela anya ukwu,” agaraghị m ama na ọ bụ mmehie.
8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Ma mmehie sitere nʼiwu a megidere ọchịchọ ọjọọ, mee ka echiche m mgbe niile bụrụ ihe gbasara ihe ọjọọ, na otu m ga-esi mee ha. A sị na iwu adịghị, mmehie agaraghị adị.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died.
Na mbụ, abụ m onye dị ndụ mgbe iwu na-adịghị, ma mgbe iwu bịara, e mere ka mmehie nwe ntute.
10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Anwụrụ m, ma chọpụta na iwu ahụ kwesiri iwetara m ndụ ghọziri ihe wetara ọnwụ.
11 for sin, taking the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Nʼihi na mmehie jiri ohere ahụ iwu webatara ghọgbuo m, sitekwa nʼiwu ahụ gbuo m.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Nʼezie, iwu ahụ dị nsọ, ihe e nyere nʼiwu dị nsọ, bụrụkwa ezi omume na ihe dị mma.
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.
Mgbe ahụ, ọ pụtara na ihe ahụ dị mma wetaara m ọnwụ? Mba! Kama ọ bụ mmehie sitere nʼihe dị mma wetara m ọnwụ, ka e nwee ike gosipụta na mmehie bụ ihe jọgburu onwe ya site nʼihe e nyere nʼiwu.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Anyị matara na iwu bụ ihe nke mmụọ ebe mụ onwe m bụ anụ ahụ efu, onye e rere dịka ohu nye mmehie.
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.
O nweghị ụzọ ihe m na-eme si doo m anya. Nʼihi na ihe m na-eme abụghị ihe m chọrọ ime, ọ bụ ihe m kpọrọ asị bụ ihe na-agara m aka ime mgbe niile.
16 But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
Ma ọ bụrụ na m eme ihe m na-achọghị ime, ana m ekwenye na iwu dị mma.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Ma dịka ọ dị, ọ bụkwaghị mụ onwe m na-eme ihe ndị a, kama ọ bụ mmehie bi nʼime m.
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.
O doro m anya na o nweghị ihe ọma ọbụla dị nʼime m, ya bụ nʼime anụ ahụ m. Nʼihi na ọ na-agụ m agụụ ime ezi ihe, ma ike ime ezi ihe adịghị nʼime m.
19 For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.
Ihe m na-eme mgbe m chọrọ ime ezi ihe abụghị ezi ihe ahụ m chọrọ ime kama ọ bụ ajọọ ihe ahụ m na-achọghị ime ka m na-eme.
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.
Ọ bụrụ na m na-eme ihe ahụ m na-achọghị ime, ọ pụtara na ọ bụghị mụ onwe m na-eme ihe ndị ahụ. Kama ọ bụ mmehie bi nʼime m na-eme ha.
21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Achọpụtara m iwu nke na-arụ ọrụ nʼime m. Mgbe m chọrọ ime ihe ọma, naanị ihe ọjọọ bụ ihe na-agara m aka ime.
22 For I delight in God's law in my inner being,
Nʼime ime onwe m, ọ na-agụ m agụụ ime ihe iwu Chineke kwuru.
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.
Ma ana m ahụta iwu ọzọ dị nʼime m nke na-agba mgba megide iwu nke dị nʼuche m, ime ka m bụrụ ohu nye iwu nke mmehie na-arụ ọrụ ya nʼanụ ahụ m.
24 What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Lee ụdị ọnọdụ ọjọọ nke m hụtara onwe m nʼime ya! Onye pụrụ ịnapụta m site nʼanụ ahụ a nke na-eduba m nʼọnwụ?
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.
Ma ekele dịrị Chineke, onye na-anapụta m site na Kraịst Jisọs Onyenwe anyị! Ya mere, nʼime mmụọ m, abụ m odibo nye iwu Chineke, ma nʼime anụ ahụ mmehie m, abụ m ohu nye iwu nke mmehie.
