Romans 7
1 My fellow believers, you know about laws. So you certainly know (OR, I want you to remember) that people have to obey laws [PRS] [only] while [they are] alive. [RHQ]
Na fi dunu! Dilia huluane da sema hou dawa: beba: le, na waha sia: mu liligi huluane dilia da noga: le dawa: mu. Dunu ilia esalebeba: le fawane, sema da ilia hou ouligisa. Be ilia bogosea, sema da ilia hou ouligimu da hamedei.
2 For example, a woman is required by the law {the law requires a woman} [to obey and be faithful to her husband] as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, she is freed [from having to] {[no longer has to]} [obey] the law about [remaining married to] her husband.
Agoane gala. Uda da dunuga laiba: le, egoa esalebeba: le, sema gala. E da egoama madelagi agoane gala. Be egoa da bogosea, amo sema da fisiba: le, amo uda da halegale, udigili lalumu.
3 Therefore, a woman will be called {people will call a woman} an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she no longer [has to obey] that law. Then she will not be an adulteress if she marries another man.
Amaiba: le, egoa esaleawane, amo uda da eno dunuma fisia, e da wadela: i uda, eno dunu ilia da sia: mu. Be egoa bogobeba: le, amo uda da udigili didalo agoane lalebeba: le, e da eno dunuma fisia, e da wadela: le hame hamosa.
4 Likewise, my fellow believers, [just like people are free from having to obey any law after they die] [MET], you [and I] have been freed {[God] has freed you [and me]} from having [to obey] all the Jewish rituals and laws [MET]. [That is because it is as though] we died with Christ [when he was crucified]. Now you [and I] belong to someone else [MET], [like a woman who marries again after her husband dies belongs to another man]. Specifically, you [and I] belong to [Christ], who has come back to life {whom [God] has caused to live again after he died}, in order that we may live righteously [IDM] to [honor] God.
Na fi dunu! Dilia da sema amoma agoaiwane esala. Dilia da Gelesuma madelagiba: le, Ea da: i hodo liligi hamoi dagoiba: le, dilia da fedege agoane dilia musa: ouligisu (Sema) amoma bogoi dagoi. Be dili huluane Gode Ea hawa: noga: le hamoma: ne, Yesu Gelesu da bogosu fisili, wa: legadoi. Amola wali dilia da Yesu Gelesu Ea fi dunu esala.
5 When our self-directed nature [controlled] us, desires [that led us to] sin were acting in our bodies. [Those desires were increased because of our knowing God’s] laws [PRS]. As a result [we did evil things] [IDM] [that] caused us to be separated from God.
Ninia musa: wadela: i hu ea hou fawane hamonanuba: le, Sema sia: nababeba: le, amo da ninia wadela: i hanai asigi dawa: su ganodini wili gala: su. Amo wadela: i hanai asigi dawa: su da bagade heda: beba: le, ninia da fedege bogosu ea udigili hawa: hamosu dunu agoane ba: i.
6 But now we are freed {free} from [having to obey all the Jewish] rituals— [it is as though] we have died. The result is that now we are not controlled by those rituals {those rituals do not control us now}. So we serve God, not by [having to obey] those rituals, which is the old way, but in the new way, as [God’s] Spirit [helps us to serve him].
Be wali ninia sema se iasu diasu logo da doasi dagoiba: le, ninia da halegai dagoi. Bai ninia da sema amoma bogoidafa. Sema dedei huluane ba: beba: le, ninia da wali Gode Ea hawa: hame hamosa. Be gaheabolo hou da misi dagoi. Gode Ea A: silibu Hadigidafa Gala da ninia dogo ganodini esalebeba: le, ninia Gode Ea sia: nabawane hawa: hamonana.
7 [Someone might object], saying, “(The laws [that God gave Moses] must be evil [if our sinful desires] are increased because of our knowing those laws. [MTY]/Are not the laws [that God gave Moses] evil [if they stir up our sinful desires]?)” [MTY, RHQ] [I would reply] that they certainly are not [evil, even though our sinful desires are increased]. What I would reply is that I, [for example], realized that [what I was doing] was sinful only because [of what is written] {[Moses wrote]} [in] those laws. For example, I realized that coveting [is sinful] only because he wrote in those laws [PRS], “You must not covet.”
Amaiba: le, ninia da Sema huluane da wadela: i fawane sia: ma: bela: ? Hame mabu! Sema dedei dawa: beba: le, na da wadela: i hou ea bai dawa: Sema da, “Eno dunu ea liligi hanaiwane lamusa: mae dawa: ma!” Amo sema na da hame dawa: loba, na da amo wadela: i hou hamoi dagoi na da hame dawa: la: loba.
8 And because of what that commandment [stated], my sinful [desire to have things that belong to others] [PRS] caused me to covet in many ways. [Our desire to] sin is not stimulated [MET] when there is no law [that prohibits our doing sinful things].
Be amo sema na dawa: beba: le, wadela: i hou na dogo ganodini logo fodole, wadela: i hanai hou bagohame na dogo ganodini wili gala: su. Sema hame dedei ganiaba, wadela: i hou da gasa hame ba: laloba.
9 Formerly, when I did not [know] what God’s laws [required], I used to live [without worrying about what I was doing]. But when I [became aware that God] commanded, [“You must not covet],” I suddenly realized [PRS] that I was sinning,
Na da musa: sema hame dawa: loba, wadela: i hou ea bai hame dawa: beba: le, fonobahadi hahawane esalu. Be na da sema huluane dawa: loba, na da na wadela: i hanai hou bagadewane dawa: i galu.
10 and [I realized that] I was separated from God. The laws that [I thought would enable me to] live [eternally as a result of my obeying them] caused me [to realize that] I was separated from God!
Amalalu, na da fedege agoane bogoi. Gode da nama esalusu ima: ne, Sema hamoi dagoi. Be nama sema da se imunusa: fofada: su liligi fawane ba: i.
11 [My desire to] sin found a way [PRS] to deceive me [by making me think wrongly that] I could keep [on sinning and at the same time obey] those laws [enough so that I would live eternally], and [thus it] caused me to be separated from God [PRS].
Amaiba: le, fedege agoane, wadela: i hou da logo fodole, sema medosu liligi gaguli, nama hohonone, na fane legei dagoi.
12 So [we conclude that] the laws [that God gave to Moses] are holy. What God commanded [about not coveting, along with all the other things that he commanded], is also holy, and it is just and good.
Amaiba: le, Sema da hadigi amola hamoma: ne sia: i da hadigi, moloidafa amola noga: i.
13 So, [if someone were to object] saying, “[The laws that God gave Moses], which are good, (resulted in my being separated from God!/did they result in my being separated from God?) [RHQ]” [I would reply], “Certainly they did not [do that]!” But instead, those [laws], which are good, stimulated [my desire to] sin. I knew that the result was that I was separated from God. And also, because I [learned what God had] commanded, [I knew that] what I was doing was [truly] sinful.
Be amo ea bai da liligi noga: idafa da na fane legebela: ? Hame mabu! Wadela: i hou da na fane legei dagoi. Wadela: i hou da liligi moloidafa (Sema) amo lale amola amoga na da: i hodo fane legei. Na da wadela: i hou ea houdafa noga: le dawa: ma: ne agoane hamosu. Amaiba: le, sema da wadela: i hou amo da baligili wadela: idafa amo olelesa.
14 We know that the laws [that God gave Moses came from God’s] Spirit. But as for me, I am [influenced by my] self-directed nature. [It is as though] I have been forced to become a slave of [my desire to] sin [MET].
Gode Ea Sema da a: silibu hou agoane, amo ninia dawa: Be na da osobo bagade dunu fawane. Na da wadela: i hou amo ea se iasu udigili hawa: hamosu dunu agoane.
15 The things that I do, I [often] [HYP] do not understand. That is, [sometimes] [HYP] it is [the good things] that I want [to do] that I do not do. [And sometimes] [HYP] it is the [evil] things that I detest that I do.
Na hawa: hamonana bai na da noga: le hame dawa: Na wali hou moloidafa hamomu hanai be na hanai liligi mae hamone, na higa: i liligi fawane hamosa.
16 Since I [do] the [evil] things that I do not want [to] do, I agree that the laws [of God] are good.
Na higa: i liligi na da hamonanebeba: le, na da amane sia: sa, “Ma! Sema da moloidafa,” amo olelesa.
17 So, it is not that I do [evil things because I wish to do them]. Instead, [what happens is that] I do sinful things because the desire to sin [causes me to do them]. The [desire to] sin (is within/permeates) me [PRS].
Amaiba: le, na higa: i liligi na hamonanebeba: le, amo da nisu na hame hamosa. Be wadela: i hou na dogo ganodini diala, amo fawane da na higa: i hou hamosa.
18 I know that my self-directed nature will not [let me] [PRS] [do] anything that is good. I know this because I want [to do what is good], but I do not do what is good.
Na osobo bagade hou amo ganodini, hou moloidafa afadafa da hamewane diala, amo na dawa: Na hou ganodini na da hou moloidafa hamomu hanai be hamomu hamedeiwane ba: sa.
19 I do not do the good things that I want to do. Instead, it is evil things that I do not want to do that I do.
Na hou moloidafa hamomu hanai - be hamedei. Na da wadela: i hou hamomu higa: i, be amo fawane hamomusa: logo ba: sa.
20 Because I do [evil things] that I do not want to do, it is not that I do [evil things because I want to]. Instead, [I do them because] my self-directed nature, which permeates me [PRS], [causes me to do them].
Na da na higa: i liligi hamonanebeba: le, bai da amo hamosu, na nisu da hame hamosa. Wadela: i hou na dogo ganodini diala, amo fawane da amo hawa: hamosa.
21 I find, then, that what always happens is that when I want to do what is good, there is an evil [desire] present within me that [PRS] [prevents me from doing good].
Amaiba: le, na hou ganodini na da hou eno hamonanebe ba: sa. Na da hou moloidafa hamomu hanai, be hamedeiba: le, wadela: i hou hamomu logo fawane ba: sa.
22 With my new inner nature I like the laws of God very much.
Na a: silibu amo ganodini, na da Gode Ea Sema amoma nodosa.
23 Nevertheless, I sense that there is a different force that is in (my body/me) [PRS, SYN]. It is opposed to what with my mind [I desire to do] [MET], and it puts me inescapably under the control of [MET] the sinful [desires] that I have [SYN].
Be na da sema hisu na da: i hodo ganodini ba: sa. Amo sema da na asigi dawa: su ganodini, Gode Ea Sema (amo na hamomu hanai) amoma gegenana. Amaiba: le, wadela: i hou sema na da: i hodo ganodini hamonanebe da nama se iasu diasu ouligisu dunu agoane gala.
24 [When I consider this], I [feel that I] am a very wretched person. I want someone to set me free from the control of what my body [desires], in order that I might not be separated from God. [RHQ] [I also think that what I have experienced is the same as what all believers experience].
Na da bagadewane da: i dioi gala. Na da: i dioi da bogoi ea da: i hodo agoane nama lala: gibiba: le, na da bu hahawane dogolegele laloma: ne, amo la: gi da nowa fadegama: bela: ?
25 I thank God that it is by Jesus Christ our Lord [that we can be free from the control of what our bodies desire]. So, [with our minds, you and] I on the one hand want to obey God’s laws. [But also], [you and] I [often let] our sinful [desires control us] because of our self-directed nature.
Na da Godema nodosa! Bai E da Hina Gode Yesu Gelesu Ea hamobeba: le, na se iasu la: gi fadegamu. Amaiba: le, na hou da agoane diala. Nisu da hawa: hamosea, na da Gode Ea hou na asigi dawa: su amo ganodini fawane hamosa. Be na hu ea hou amo ganodini wadela: i hou sema amoma fawane fa: no bobogesa.
