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?
Qachalal, tajin kixinchꞌabꞌej ix ri iwetaꞌm ri utaqanik ri Moisés. ¿La man iwetaꞌm chi jun winaq kꞌo chuxeꞌ ri taqanik are kꞌaslik?
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.
Kinkoj jun kꞌambꞌejabꞌal noꞌj chiꞌwach. Ri kꞌulanik ixoq are kꞌaslik nukꞌtal rukꞌ ri rachajil rumal ri taqanik, we kꞌu kakam ri rachajil, ri ixoq kel kanoq chuxeꞌ ri taqanik ri e nukꞌuwinaq rukꞌ ri rachajil.
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.
Rumal riꞌ, ri ixoq we kakꞌuliꞌ rukꞌ chi jun achi are kꞌas na ri rachajil, kux ajmak rumal kuꞌx e kebꞌ rachajil. Are kꞌu we kakam ri rachajil, ri ixoq kel kan chuxeꞌ ri taqanik, xuqujeꞌ man kamakun taj we kakꞌuliꞌ chi ne rukꞌ jun achi.
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.
Je xuqujeꞌ ri ix wachalal, xixkamik pa ri taqanik pa ri utyoꞌjal ri Cristo ri xripik, rech jeriꞌ kixux rech ri xkꞌastajisax chkixoꞌl ri kaminaqibꞌ. Rech jeriꞌ kꞌo kaqatayij che ri Dios.
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.
Nabꞌe, are ri najtir qakꞌaslemal kabꞌan kan rech pa qawiꞌ, ri itzel taq rayinik ri xukꞌasuj ri taqanik rech jeriꞌ ri qatyoꞌjal, xux rech kamikal.
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.
Kamik kꞌut man uj kꞌo ta chi chuxeꞌ ri taqanik, jeriꞌ rumal cher xujkam pa ri taqanik, xa jeriꞌ kujpatanij pa ri kꞌakꞌ ajawarem rech ri Tyoxalaj Uxlabꞌixel, man chuxeꞌ taj ri taqanik.
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."
¿Jas kꞌu ri kaqabꞌij? ¿La are kꞌu mak ri taqanik? Man are taj. Xwi kaqabꞌij chi we ta mat rumal ri taqanik mat xinwil ri numak, mat xinwetaꞌmaj jas riꞌ ri urayixik chi jun jastaq chik ri man rech ta jun, we ta mat kubꞌij ri taqanik: “Marayij ri man awech taj.”
8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Ri mak kꞌut xnimatajik rumal ri taqanik, xukꞌasuj pa ri wanimaꞌ ronojel uwach itzel taq rayinik. Jeriꞌ, rumal chi we ta mat kꞌo ri taqanik, mat xukꞌut ribꞌ riꞌ ri mak.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died.
Ojer kanoq man in kꞌo taj chuxeꞌ ri taqanik. Are xpe ri taqanik, xyaꞌtaj ukꞌaslemal ri makaj, ri in kꞌut xinkamik.
10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Xinwilo chi ri taqanik ri chinuwach in kuya nukꞌaslemal, xuya kamikal chwe.
11 for sin, taking the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Ri makaj rumal ri taqanik xinumenkꞌetij, rumal riꞌ xinukamisaj.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Kꞌisbꞌal rech kaqabꞌij chi ri taqanik sibꞌalaj Tyox, sukꞌ xuqujeꞌ utz.
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.
¿La are kꞌu xux utzilal chinuwach in ri kamikal? Man je ta riꞌ, xane are ri makaj rech kukꞌut ribꞌ chi are mak, xinukamisaj rukꞌ ri utzilal, rech rumal ri taqanik ri makaj xux itzel.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Qetaꞌm chi ri Taqanik rech ri uxlabꞌal, are kꞌu in xa in tyoꞌj, in kꞌayital pa uqꞌabꞌ ri mak.
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.
Rumal riꞌ man kinchꞌobꞌ taj ri kinbꞌano. Man kinbꞌan taj ri kawaj kinbꞌano, ri kinwetzelaj ubꞌanik, are kinbꞌano.
16 But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
We are kinbꞌan ri man kawaj taj kinbꞌano, tajin kinbꞌij riꞌ chi utz ri taqanik.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Xaq jeriꞌ man in ta chik kinbꞌanow ri jastaq riꞌ, xane are ri makaj ri kꞌo chwe.
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.
Xuqujeꞌ wetaꞌm chi man kꞌo ta ri utzilal pa ri nutyoꞌjal, pune kawaj kinbꞌan ri utzilal, man kinkwin taj chubꞌanik.
19 For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.
Rumal riꞌ man kinbꞌan taj ri utzilal ri kawaj kinbꞌano, xane are kinbꞌan ri etzelal ri man kawaj taj kinbꞌano.
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.
We kꞌu are kawaj kinbꞌan ri man kawaj taj kinbꞌano, man in ta chi riꞌ tajin kinbꞌanowik, xane are ri etzelal ri kꞌo pa wanimaꞌ.
21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Xaq jeriꞌ are kawaj kinbꞌan ri utzilal, kinwil ri taqanik ri kubꞌij chi ri etzelal pa wanimaꞌ in kꞌo wi xuqujeꞌ are tajin kinwilij ubꞌanik.
22 For I delight in God's law in my inner being,
Pa ri ukꞌuꞌx ri wanimaꞌ kinkiꞌkotebꞌej ri utaqanik ri Dios.
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.
Kinwil kꞌut chi pa ri nutyoꞌjal kꞌo chi jun taqanik, are taqanik rech ri makaj. We taqanik riꞌ kakitij chuqꞌabꞌ rukꞌ ri taqanik rech ri nuchomabꞌal, in utzꞌapim.
24 What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
¡Kꞌax we! ¿Jachin kakwinik kintoꞌw chech waꞌ we tyoꞌjal rech kamikal?
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.
Xa kꞌu kintyoxin che ri Dios, ri xinukiro pa Jesucristo ri Ajawxel. In rukꞌ ri nuchomabꞌal kinpatanij ri utaqanik ri Dios, are kꞌu ri nutyoꞌjal are kupatanij ri taqanik rech ri mak.
